^ 


LIBRARY 

OF  THE 

University  of  California, 


GIF^T    OF^ 


Mrs.  SARAH  P.  WALSWORTH 

Received  October,  i8g4. 
Accessions  No.  3^1  ^Y-      Class  No, 


STATE  OF  NEW  YOKK 


THE 


UNIYERSITY  MANUAL. 


REVISED  EDITION. 


1882, 


i^:^ 


ftr'HI?BESIT7] 


ALBANY : 

WEED,   PARSONS  AND  COMPANY,   PRINTEES. 
1882. 


ViV 


STATE  OF  NEW  YORK. 


CONCURKENT  RESOLUTION  OF  THE  SENATE  AND  ASSEMBLY. 

March  14,  1882. 
Besolved,  That  five  hundred  copies  of  the  University  Manual 
be  printed  and  bound  for  the  use  of  the  Regents  of  the  Uni- 
versity, and  two  hundred  and  fifty  copies  for  the  use  of  the 
Legislature,  at  a  cost  not  to  exceed  one  dollar  per  copy,  paya- 
ble on  the  certificate  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Regents. 


PEEFATORT  NOTE. 


In  1830  the  Regents  ofvtli^IJmversity  directed  Secretary 
Hawley  to  issue  "Instructions"  to  the  several  academies 
subject  to  their  visitation,  relating  chiefly  to  the  requisites 
and  forms  of  academic  reports.  Another  edition  was  pre- 
pared in  1834,  and  still- others,  with  wider  scope  of  subject- 
matter,  from  time  to  time  until  1845.  In  1835  and  1847 
similar  instructions  were  provided  for  the  colleges,  and  in 
1849,  by  direction  of  the  board,  Secretary  Beck  combined 
the  two  codes  into  one.  This,  as  revised  in  1853,  made  an 
octavo  volume  of  one  hundred  and  sixty-six  pages.  These 
"  Instructions"  were  replaced  in  1864  by  the  "Manual  of  the 
Regents, "  edited  by  Secretary  Woolworth ;  and  this  again 
in  1870  and  1872  by  "Tiie  University  Manual,"  recon- 
structed from  the  Manual  of  1864  with  large  additions,  by 
Assistant  Secretary  Pratt,  who  has  also  had  charge  of  the 
present  revision. 

Besides  numerous  other  additions  consisting  chiefly  of 
laws  and  ordinances  passed  since  1870,  chapters  VIII,  IX 
and  XVII  of  this  volume,  treating  respectively  of  the 
"Colonial   History,"   and  the    "Natural  History"  of  the 


IV  PREFATORY  NOTE. 

State,  and  "Examinations,"  have  been  inserted  as  new 
matter;  while  chapters  XVIII,  XX  and  the  Appendix  of 
the  former  edition  have  been  omitted,  and  certain  other 
chapters  materially  condensed.  The  utility  of  the  present 
edition,  although  smaller  by  fifty  pages  than  its  predecessor, 
it  is  believed  has  been  increased  by  these  exchanges. 

Since  this  work  was  completed  and  stereotyped,  the  Re- 
gents have  passed  an  ordinance  requiring  a  greater  amount 
of  property  as  a  condition  of  incorporating  academies  and 
admitting  academical  departments  to  the  visitation  of  the 
board ;  and  both  the  Legislature  and  the  Regents  have  taken 
important  action  relative  to  the  instruction  of  common 
school  teachers  in  academies.  Supplementary  information 
on  these  points  will  be  furnished  on  application. 

DAVID  MURRAY, 

Secretary. 

Office  of  the  Regents, 

August  1,  1883. 


■XririTERSITT] 


CONTEE-TS 


PAET  I. 

LAWS     RELATIVE    TO    THE    UNIVERSITY    OF    THIS 

STATE,  AND  THE  ORGANIZATION  AND 

POWERS  OF  THE  BOARD  OF 

REGENTS. 

Chapter  I. 

Organization  and  Powers  of  the  Board  of  Regents. 


1  —  14. 
Sec.  Papre. 

1.  University  instituted  ;  government  vested  in  regents. .  1 

2.  Name  and  corporate  powers 1 

3.  Number  of  regents  ;  ex-offido  members  designated 2 

4.  Regents,  bow  appointed  and  removed 2 

5.  Vacancies,  how  supplied ,  > 2 

6.  No  regent  to  act  as  trustee,  and  vice  versa 2 

7.  No   college   president  or  academy   principal  to  be  a 

regent  2 

8.  Officers  of  tbe  board  designated ;  how  chosen  and  ten- 

ure of  office 3 

9.  Presiding  officer  designated  ;  has  casting  vote 8 

10.  Annual  meeting  to  be  held  ;  time  and  place  designated.  3 

11.  Other  meetings,    when   and  where  to  be  held,  and  by 

whom  to  be  called 3 

12.  Quorum  of   the  board,  and  power  to  adjourn   with  or 

without  a  quorum 3 


VI  CONTENTS. 

Sec,  Page. 

13.  Meetings,  how 'to  be  called,  and  on  wliat  notice 3,  4 

14.  Non-attendance  during  the  legislative   session,  to  be 

deemed  a  resignation  and  so  declared 4 

15.  Duty  of  treasurer  of  the  board 4 

16.  Duties  of  secretary,  as  to  journal  of  proceedings 4 

17.  Regents  may  have  access  to  books  and  papers  of  the 

board 4 

18.  Instructed  to  visit  and  inspect  colleges  and  academies 

and  to  report  thereon  annually. . . .  o 4,  5 

19.  Full  power  to  examine  the  affairs  of  institutions  con- 

ferred upon  the  regents  and  their  secretary 5 

20.  Regents  authorized  to  confer  degrees  by  diploma 5 

21.  Regents'  degree  of  M.   D.  to  confer  authority  to  prac- 

tice physic  and  surgery  within  this  state 5 

22.  Requisites  for  regents'  degree  of  M.  D 5,  6 

23.  Regents  may  confer  honorary   degree  of  M.  D.  (not  a 

license  to  practice),  on  nominees  of   State  Medical 

Society,  etc C 

24.  Regents  may,  in  certain  cases,  fill  vacancies  in  oflSces  of 

college  president  and  academy  principal 6 

25.  26.  Tenure  of  office  of  such  appointees  ;  their  powers, 

emoluments,   etc 6,  7 

27.  Regents  may  permit   income  of  certain  trust  funds  to 

accumulate 7 

28.  Grants  to  regents  for  certain  uses,  not  to  be  otherwise 

applied 7 

29.  Regents  authorized  to  make  by-laws  and  ordinances. . .  7 

30.  Authorized  to  send  for  persons  and  papers 7,  8 

81.  Regents  to  appoint  boards  of  examiners  in  medicine. .  8 

32.  Report  required  from  such  examiners 8 

33.  Subjects  of  medical  examinations   prescribed 8 

34.  Reports  of  medical  examinations  to  be  preserved 8,  9 

35.  Qualifications  and  fees  of  candidates 9 

86.  Diploma  and  degree  of  successful  candidates 9 

87.  Fee  for  diploma 9 


CONTENTS.  Vll 

Sec.  Page. 

38.  Fees   applicable  to  expenses  of  conducting  examina- 

tion  ..9,10 

39.  Regents  may  establish  rules  and  regulations   for  con- 

ducting medical  examinations. 10 

40.  Regents  to  make  examination  as  to  monuments   on 

boundary  lines  of  the  state 10 

41.  Appropriation  for  renewing  monuments,  etc 10 

42.  Regents  to  report  to  legislature  as  to  progress  of  work .  10 

43.  Old  boundary  lines  to  be  recognized  as  valid,  irrespect- 

ive of    lack  of  conformity  to   verbal   descriptions 
thereof 10,  11 

44.  Regents  to  appoint  three  of  their  number  to  act  as  com- 

missioners to  co-operate  with  N.  J.  and  Penn.   com- 
missioners  11,13 

45.  Appropriation  for  expenses  of  such  commissioners  ...  12 

46.  Appropriation  from  U.  S.  Deposit  Fund  for  establishing 

and  conducting  examinations  as  to  attainments  in 
learning. , .12,  13 

46.  Provisions  for  such  examinations 12,  13 

47.  Plan  of  such  examinations 13,   14 

48.  Examination  open  to  scholars  from   common  schools, 

on  certain  conditions 14 

49.  Authenticated  copies  of  regents,   records  may  be  read 

in  evidence , 14 

Chapter  II. 

Incorporation  of   Collegc^^  Academies,  and  Lancasterian  and 
Select  Schools. 

Pages  15  —  28. 

1.  Citizens  disposed  to  found  a  literary   college  may  ap- 

ply to  regents  for  incorporation 15 

2.  Founders  of  an  academy  may  apply  to  regents  for  in- 

corporation      Ig 


Viu  CONTENTS. 

Sec.  Page. 

3.  Approbation  of  regents,  how  declared 16 

4.  When  and  in  whom  property  and  funds  are  vested ...   16 

5.  Regents  may  prescribe  conditions  of  incorporation,  and 

may  incorporate  institutions  of  learning 16,  17 

6.  Incorporation  of  medical  colleges,  preliminaries  to.  .17,  18 

7.  Conditions  of  incorporation 18 

8.  Amount  of  real  estate  which  may  be  held 18,  19 

9.  Such  colleges  subject  to  provisions  of  revised  statutes, 

and  to  visitation  of  regents 19 

10.  Number  and  powers  of  trustees 19,  20 

11.  Trustees  of  medical  colleges  may  confer  degree  of  doc- 

tor of  medicine 20 

12.  Indigent  students  to  be  admitted  to  instruction 20,  21 

13.  Academy  or  high  school  may  create  capital  stock 21 

14.  Conditions  on  which  any  such  corporation  may  be  de- 

clared an  academy 21,  22 

15.  No  dividends  to  be  paid  while  outstanding  indebted- 

ness exists 22 

16.  Power  of  regents  to  alter,  amend  or  repeal  charters..  22 

17.  Applications  for  charters,  and  charters  granted  by  the 

regents  to  be  recorded  in  their  office 22 

18.  Fees  for  recording  applications,  etc.,  abolished 23 

19.  Regents  authorized  to  cause  charters  in  oflBce  of  secre 

tary  of  state  to  be  transcribed  23 

20.  Certified  copies  of  records  in  charge  of  regents  may  be 

read  in  evidence 23 

21.  Any  union  free  school  board  may  establish  an  academi- 

cal department  when  needed 23,  24 

22.  Such  department  to  be  under  the   visitation  of  the 

regents 24 

28.  An  academy  may  be  made  the  academical  department  of 

a  union  school,  on  certain  conditions 24 

24.  Preliminary  steps  for  dissolution  of  union  free  school 

districts 24,  25 

25.  Dissolution,  how  effected 25,  26 

26.  Restoration  of  vacated  trusteeships,  in  a  certain  case. .  26 


CONTENTS.  IX 

Sec.  Page. 

27.  Privileges  of  union  scliools 26 

28.  Founders  and  benefactors  of  Lancasterian  Schools  may 

•  apply  to  be  incorporated 26 

29.  Regents  may  incorporate  sucli  schools 26 

30.  Request  and  instrument,  where  to  be  recorded 27 

31 .  Property  and  funds,  when  and  in  whom  vested 27 

32.  Such  schools  under  visitation  of  regents 27 

33.  General  act  of  incorporation 27 

34.  Amount  of  endowment  allowed 27 

35.  General  act  applicable  to  former  organizations 27 

36.  Mode  of  incorporation  under  general  law 28 

ClIAPTER  III. 

Powers  and  Duties  of  Trustees  of  Colleges,  Academies,  etc. 

Pages  29—37. 

1.  Colleges,  29—31. 

1.  Trustees  to  be  a  corporation . .  29 

2.  Meetings,  how  called 29 

3.  Notice,  how  given 29 

4.  Seniority   among  trustees,  how  determined 29 

5.  Number  of  trustees  ;  what  numbet  a  quorum ...   29 

6.  Powers  of  trustees  enumerated 30,  31 

7.  Privileges  conferred  by  diplomas 31 

7^.  Limitations  as  to  privileges  and  location  of  medical 

faculty 31 

2.  Academies^    31 — 35. 

8.  Trustees  to  be  a  corporation  ;    name;   number;   what 

number  a  quorum 31,  .S3 

9.  Powers  of  trustees  enumerated 32,  33 

10.  Meetings,  how  called,  and  by  whom 33 

11.  Time  and  place,  how  appointed  33 


X  CONTENTS. 

Sec.  Papre. 

12.  Notice,  how  to  be  given;  who  to  preside 33 

13.  Seniority  among  trustees,  how  determined 33 

14.  In  what  case  the  office  of  a  trustee  may  be  vacated.'. .  34 

15.  Absence  for  a  year  to  be  deemed  a  resignation 34 

16   and  17.  Number  of  trustees,  how  reduced 34 

18.  Special  powers  of  trustees  of  stock  corporations 34,  35 

3.  Lancasterian  and  Select  Schools,  35 — 37. 

19.  Trustees  to  be  a  corporation 85 

20.  Powers  of  trustees  enumerated 35,  36 

21.  Office  of  trustee,  how  vacated 36 

23.  Such  school  how  made  a  district  school 36 

23.  Entitled  to  benefits  of  district  schools 37 

24.  Subject  to  visitation  of  the  regents 37 

4.  General  Provisions  applicable  to  Colleges  and  Academies^  37 

25..  No  religious  qualification  to  be  required  from  profes- 
sors, tutors,  etc 37 

26.  No  academy  professor  or  tutor  to  be  a  trustee  of  such 

academy 37 

27.  No  president,  professor,  tutor  or  principal  to  vote  as 

trustee  relative  to  his  own  emoluments 87 

Chapteh  IV. 

Anntial  Reports  of  Colleges  and  Academies,  and  the  Distribu- 
tion of  the  Public  Funds. 

Pages  38 — 44. 

1.  Reports  to  be  made 88 

2.  Annual  reports  to  be  made  on  or  before  October  first. .  88 
8.  Regents  to  prescribe  forms 88 

4.  Trustees  to  declare  termination  of  academic  year. .  .38,  39 

5.  Annual  reports  of  academies,  when  to  be  transmitted. .  89 


CONTENTS.  XI 

Sec.  Page. 

6.  Report  to  be  attested  by  oath  of  principal,  and  to  con- 

tain certain  statements 39 

7.  Annual  apportionment  to  academies , 40 

8.  Basis  of  apportionment 40,  41 

9.  Classical  and  higher  English  studies  defined 41 

10.  Conditions  of  participating  in  distribution  of  literature 

fund,  and  schools  that  may  also  be  admitted 41,  43 

11.  Certain  academies  to  instruct  common  school  teachers,  43 

12.  Schedule  of  distribution  to  be  delivered  to  the   comp- 

troller   43 

13.  Comptroller  to  draw  his  warrant  in  favor  of  each  insti- 

tution    43 

14.  Moneys  from  literature  and  U.  S.  deposit  funds  to  be 

applied  exclusively  to  payment  of  teachers'  salaries.  43 

15.  Annual  appropriation   for   purchase  of  books  and  ap- 

paratus.   43 

16.  Amount  limited,  and  conditionally  granted . . .  43 

17.  Power  of  regents  to  grant  relief 44 

18.  Regents  to  report  to  the  legislature,  and  when 44 

Chapter  V. 

State  Normal  School,  and  Instruction  of  Common  School  Teachers 
in  Academies. 

Pages  45—47. 

1.  State  Normal  School,  at  Albany,  under  whose  manage- 

ment; excutive  committee 45 

2.  Normal   School  diploma  evidence  of  qualification  to 

teach 46 

3.  Annual  report  to  be  made  to  the  legislature  46 

4.  Appropriation     for    instruction    of    common    school 

teachers  in  academies 46 

5.  Institutions  to  be  appointed  by  the  regents  to  give  in- 

struction    46 


Xll  COXTEKTS. 

Sec.  Page. 

6.  Organization  of  teachers'  classes 46,  47 

7.  Instruction  to  be  free  to  members  of  classes 47 

8.  Rate  of  compensation  from  tlie  appropriation 47 

9.  Comptroller  when  to  draw  warrant. 47 

Chapter  VI. 
TJie  State  Library. 

Pages  48—53. 

1.  Regents  to  be  trustees  of  state  library 48 

2,  3.  Trustees  to  appoint  librarians  and  messenger,  and 

prescribe  rules 48 

4 .  Library,  when  to  be  kept  open 48 

5.  Duties  of  librarian 49 

6.  Trustees  to  direct  him , 49 

7.  Trustees  may  sell  or  exchange  duplicates,  etc 49 

8.  Annual  report  to  be  made  to  the  legislature,  'and  cata- 

logue once  in  five  years 49,  50 

9.  Members  of  the  legislature  may  take  books 50 

10.  Penalty  for  not  roturning  books 50 

11.  Books  not  to  be  taken  from  library  by  other  persons. .  50 
13.  Heads  of  departments  and  trustees  may  take  books. . .  51 

13.  Judges  of  court  of  appeals,   and  justices  of  supreme 

court  may  take  books  51 

14.  Copies -of  court  of  appeals'  reports  to  be  deposited  in 

state  1  ibrary 51 

15.  Copies  from  state  library   records,  books,  etc.,  duly 

authenticated,  may  be  read  in  evidence 51 

Concurrent  Resolution  Relative  to  the  State  Library. 

16.  Trustees  may  make  rules,  etc,  and  may  limit  use  of 

library  to  certai u  jwrsous 51 ,  52 

17.  Copies  of  all  extra  documents  to  be  furnished  by  state 

printer 52 


CONTENTS.  XIU 

Sec.  Page. 

18,  Library  to  be  closed  from  August  5th  to  30th  in  each 

year,  for  cleaning 53 


Chapter  VII. 

Tlie  State  Museum  of  Natural  History, 

Pages  54—58. 

1.  Regents  of  the  university  to  provide  for  safe-keeping 

of  cabinets  of  natural  history 54 

2.  Hall    of    state     cabinet    (now     museum),    in     whose 

charge    placed,   and    vacated   rooms .  in   state   hall 
assigned 54 

3.  State  museum  of  natural  history 'established 55 

4.  Organization  of,  on  plan  recommended  by  the  regents,   55 

5.  Course  of  free  scientific  lectures  to  be  organized 55 

6.  Assistants     to    be    appointed    by     director    and    re- 

gents    55,  5G 

7.  Course  for  free  scientific  lectures  to  be  organized  by 

regents  and  director 56 

8.  Appropriation  for  salaries,  etc 56 

9.  Botanical  department  to  be  continued 56 

Distribution  of  Duplicates. 

10.  Duplicates  to  be  presented  to  Cornell  Library 56,  57 

11.  Also  to  Cornell  University 57 

12.  Cornell   Library  authorized  to  transfer  duplicates  re- 

ceived from  the  state  to  Cornell  University 57 

13.  Duplicates  to  be  furnished  to  American  Museum  of 

Natural  History 57,  58 

14.  Also,  to  Syracuse  University 58 

15.  Also,  to  Normal  Schools,  and  other  schools  under  the 

visitation  of  the  regents 58 


XIV  CONTENTS. 

Chapter  VIII. 

ITie  Colonial  History  of  the  State. 
Pages   59—66. 

Sec.  rage. 

1.  Original  documents  or  copies  thereof  to  be  procured 

from  England,  IIoHaud  and  France .   59 

2.  Such  documents  to  be  deposited  in  office  of  secretary  of 

state 59 

3.  Documents  to  be  translated  and  printed 59 

4.  Supervision  by  certain  officers  provided 60 

6.  Contract  for  printing  authorized 60 

6.  Stereotyping  and  copyrighting  authorized 60 

7,  8.  Mode  of  distribution 60,  61 

0.  Publication  to  be  completed  under  the  direction  of  the 

regents 61,  63 

10.  Discretionary  power  conferred  on  the  regents,  as  to 

subject-matter 62 

11.  Further  distribution   provided   for,  and  rate  of  sale 

fixed 62,  63 

12.  Completion  of  certain  sets  of  the  work  authorized. ...  63 

13.  Repeal  of  so  much  of  statute  as  provides  for  distri- 

bution to  certain  state  officers 63,  64 

14.  Completion  of  sets  authorized;   remaining   copies  re- 

served for  literary  exchanges 64 

15.  Act  to  be  construed  favorably  to  certain  officers 64 

16.  Amendment  of  mode  of  distribution 64,  65 

17.  Index  to  be  published 65 

18.  Distribution  to  legislature  of  1859,  authorized 65 

19.  Remaining  copies  reserved  for  literary  exchanges  ....    65 

20.  Distribution  to  legislature  of  1860  authorized 65,  66 

21.  Re-binding  of  damaged  volumes  authorized 66 

22.  Provision  for  printing  volume  twelve 6<j 

23.  Provision  for  continuing  publication 66 


CONTENTS.  XV 

Chapter  IX. 

The  Natural  History  of  the  State. 
Pages  67—91. 

Sec.  Page. 

1.  Geological  survey  of  the  state  provided  for 67 

2.  Act  relative  to  old  state  hall  and  lot 67 

3.  Provision  for  state  museum  building 67,  68 

4.  Continuance  of  geological  survey  authorized 68 

5.  Mode  of  distributing  geological  survey  volumes 68 

6.  Continuance  and  completion  of  geological  survey  and 

publication  authorized 68,  69 

7.  Copyright  of  geological  survey  to  be  secured 69 

8.  Sale  of  volumes  authorized 69 

9.  Gratuitous  distribution  to  certain  parties  authorized..  69 

10.  Repeal  of  section  5  (above) 70 

11.  Re-enactment  as  to  completion  and  publication 70 

12.  Minimum  price  per  volume  established 70 

13.  Contract  for  printing 70-73 

14.  Presentation  copies  enumerated 72,  73 

15.  Sales  to  academies,  etc.,  authorized 73 

16.  Also,  sales  in  general 73 

17.  Further  provisions  as  to  sales  to  academies,  etc,  with 

restriction 73,  74 

18.  Completion  of  sets  by  purchase   authorized,  with  re- 

striction   74,  75 

19.  Further  provision  as  to  sales 75 

20.  Sale  of  copyright  authorized 75 

21.  Instructions    to    county    treasurers  as  to  sales 75,76 

22.  Continuance  of  provisions  of  act  of  1846 76 

23.  Provision  as  to  agriculture  and  palaeontology 76,  77 

24.  Contracts  for  completion  of  work  authorized 77 

25.  Supervision  delegated  to  secretary  of  state  and  secretary 

of  regents 77 

26.  Examination  and  report  as  to  all  claims  and  contracts, 

ordered ., 77 


XVI  CONTENTS. 

Sec.  Page. 

27.  Planandestimatesforcompletionof  the  work,  ordered,  77 

28.  Contract  for  engraving 77-79 

29.  Presentation  copy  for  president  of  U.  S.,  ordered.  .  .79,  80 

30.  Provisions  of  1846  as  to  sales,  renewed 80 

31.  32.  Provisions  for  academies  conditionally  renewed ..  80,  81 

33.  County  treasurers  to  make  final  returns  81 

34.  Appropriation  for  any  expenses  accrued,  and  supervision 

by    secretary  -of   state    and    secretary  of   regents, 
renewed 81 

35.  Copies  set  apart  for  literary  exchanges 81,  82 

36.  New  minimum  price  per  volume  established 82 

37.  Farther  appropriation  for  expenses ;  supervision  con- 

tinued ;  publication  in  abridged  form  authorized . .  82,  83 

38.  Amended  contract  for  engravings 83,  84 

39    New  minimum  price  per  volume,  and  privilege  of  pur- 
chase thereat  extended  to  author  of  volumes 84 

40.  Presentation  copies  for  commissioner  of  patents,  Smith- 
sonian Institution    and    N.    Y.   Historical  Society, 
•  ordered 85 

—  List  of  volumes  of  Natural  History 85-87 

—  List  of  governments,  institutions   and   individuals   to 

whom  the  Natural  History  has  been  presented. .  .88-91 

Chapter  X. 

Relative  to  certain  Local  Law  LihraHes  founded  by  the  State, 

Pages  92—99. 

Court  of  Appeals*  Librariet* 

1.  Establishment  of  such  a  library  authorized 93 

2.  Second  library  authorized 92,  93 

3.  Librarian  to  be  appointed  by  the  regents 93 

4.  Libraries  to  be  provided  for  the  elected  judges  of  the 

court  of  appeals 93,  94 


CONTENTS.  XVll 

Sec.  Page. 

5.  Clerk  of  tlie  court  of  appeals  to  keep  certain  funds  in- 

vested  , 94 

6.  Regents  to  frame  library  rules  and  regulations 94,  95 

7.  Library  of  first  judicial  district  established;   trustees 

of  state  library  autborized  to  grant  duplicates 95 

8.  Library  of  second  j  udicial  district  established  ;  trustees 

required  to  report  to  the  regents 95 

—  Library  of  third  j  udicial  district  to  be  established.  .95,  96 

9.  Library  of  fourth  judicial  district  established 96 

10.  Trustees  required  to  report  to  trustees  of  state  library, 

who  are  authorized  to  grant  duplicates 96 

11.  Library  for  use  of  supreme  court  to  be  established  at 

Utica,  in  fifth  judicial  district 96,  97 

12.  Library  of  sixth  judicial   district  established  at  Bing- 

hamton  ;  and  law  library  authorized  to  be  established 
at  Delhi,  in  same  district 97 

—  Court  of  appeals'  library  at  Rochester  in  seventh  judicial 

district 97 

13.  Libraryof  eighth  judicial  district  established  at  Buffalo; 

trustees  required  to  report  to  the  regents 97,  98 

14.  Trustees  of  state  library   authorized  to  grant   dupli- 

cates   98 

—  Rules  and  regulations  established  by  regents  for  court 

of  appeals'  libraries  at  Syracuse  and  Rochester.  .98,  99 

Chapter  XL 

In  regard  to  certain  Public  Papers  and  Records. 

Pages  100—103. 

1.  Manuscript  papers  of  the  legislature  on  file  more  than 

five  years,  placed  in  charge  of  the  regents 100 

3,  Papers  in  state  offices  not  to  be  included 100 

3.  Suitable  room  to  be  provided 100 

4.  Regents  to  have  sole  charge  of  such  papers 100,  101 


X  Vlll  ^  CONTENTS. 

Sec.  Page. 

5.  Duties  of  regents  and  clerks  of  senate  and  assembly.  101 

6.  Certified  copies  of  such  papers  may  be  furnished  and 

allowed  in  evidence 101,  102 

7.  Duty  of  joint  library  committee  of  the  legislature  with 

reference  to  such  papers  and  records. 102 


PART  II. 

ORDINANCES  OF  THE  REGENTS. 

Chapter  XII. 

Incorporation  of  Colleges. 

Pages  103—104. 

1.  Conditions  of  incorporation 103 

2.  Charter,  when  to  be  granted 103,  104 

Chapter  XIII. 

Incorporation  of  Academies. 

Pages  105—125. 

1.  Conditions  of   incorporation,   and  of  being    received 
under  visitation 105-107 

2  and  3.  Application  for  incorpoTation  must  show  what. 

107-109 

4.  Notice  of  application  for  amendment  of  charter  to  be 

published  in  state  paper  and  in  a  local  paper 100 

Forms  of  Applications  for  Incorporation,  etc.,  109 — 125. 

I.  For  incorporation  with  absolute  charter 109-115 

Form  of  charter  granted  on  such  application. ..  .115,  116 
IT.    For  Incorporation  with  provisional  charter. ..... .116-128 


CON-TENTS.  XIX 

Sec.  Page. 

1.  With  capital  stock 116-118 

2.  Not  with  capital  stock 120-123 

3.  Form  of  charter  granted  on  such  applications 119,  120 

III.  For  declaring  provisional  charter  absolute 123 

IV.  For  an  academy  already  incorporated  to  become  sub- 

ject to  visitation. ...   123,  124 

V.  For  having  the  academic  department  of  a  union  school 

received  under  visitation , 124,  125 

Chapter  XIV. 

Annual  Reports  of  Academies. 
Pages  126—129. 

1.  As  to  Financial  Condition,  126—138. 

1.  Trustees  to  report  value  of  property 126,  127 

2.  Annual  report  when  due,  and  what  to  contain 127-129 

2.  As  to  Literary  and  Scientific  Condition^  128, 129. 

3.  4.  Report,  what  to  contain  and  how  to  be  authenti- 

cated  128,  129 

Chapter  XV. 

Examination  and  Classification  of  Scholars,  and  Distribution 
of  the  Literature  Fund. 

Pages  130—143. 

1.  Scholars  to  be  divided  into  two  classes 130 

2.  Examinations  in  writing  to  be  held,  and  records  to  be 

kept 130,  131 

3.  Papers  to  be  sent  to  the  regents,  and  certificates  to  be 

granted  to  scholars  who  pass 131 

4.  Provisional  examination  of,  abolished 131,  132 


XX  CONTENTS. 

Sec.  Page. 

5.  What  scholars  are  to  he  regarded  as  pursuing  classical 

or  higher  English  studies 133 

6.  Distribution  of  literature  fund,  how  made 133,  134 

7.  Number  of  subjects  of  study  prescribed,  in  case  of 

scholars  to  be  counted  in  the  distribution 134 

8.  Scholars  may  be  allowed  who  pass  preliminary  exami- 

nation within  the  year,  instead  of  in  advance  of  the 
required  period  of  study 134 

9.  Any  academical  department  established  by  adoption  of 

an  existing  academy  must  be  formally    received 
under  visitation 134,  135 

10.  Academic  scholars  to  be  exercised  in   composition, 

etc 135 

11.  Apportionment  of  literature  fund,  when  made;   form 

of  draft  for 135,  136 

13.  Money  assigned  for  purchase  of  text-books  and  ap- 
paratus, on  what  conditions 136,  137 

13.  Money  not  to  be  assigned  to  any  academy  of  tener  than 

once  a  year,  nor  in  excess  of  $150 137 

14.  Money  to  be  applied  to  purposes  specified  in  applica- 

tion    137 

15.  Chancellor,  and  secretary  to  certify  appropriations  for 

books,  etc.,  to  the  comptroller 137 

16.  Appropriations  not  to  be  applied  to  make  up  amount 

requisite  for  incorporation 137,  138 

17.  Contributions  on  which  applications  for  appropriations 

by  the  regents  are  based,  must  be  in  money 138 

18.  Term  "  text-books  "  includes  what 138 

19.  Full  expenditure  to  be  reported 138 

20.  Appropriations,  when  to  be  made .188,  139 

21.  One    thousand    dollars    to    be    apportioned    among 

academies   making    due    application,  on  basis  of 
scholars  allowed  in  distribution  of  literature  fund. .  139 
23.  When  applications  exceed  the  amount  at  disposal  of 

regents,  what  discrimination  to  be  made 139,  140 


CONTENTS.  XX] 

Sec.  Page. 

23.  Provision  for  renewal  of  applications   disallowed  for 

want  of  funds   140 

24.  Applications  received  before   December  fifteenth  en- 

titled to  preference 140 

1o.  Form  of  application  for  appropriation 140,  141 

26.  Form  of  draft  for  appropriation. 142 

Books  recommended  for  Academy  Libraries. 

27.  For    purposes  of   reference,    and  for    miscellaneous 

uses 142,  143 

Apparati/s. 

28.  Articles  of  apparatus  recommended 143 

Chapter  XVI. 

Books  of  Record  and  Employment  of  Teachers. 

Pages  144, 145. 

1.  Trustees  required  to  keep  records  of  proceedings. . . .   144 
2  and  3.  Also  school  registers .  144 

4.  Records  to  be  the  property  of  the  academy,  and  not  to 

be  removed  from  its  possession 144 

5.  Regents  making  visitations  to  inquire  whether  these 

requirements  are  observed 144,   145 

6.  Trustees  to  employ  teachers  and  fix  their  compen- 

sation    145 

Chapter  XVII. 

Bxaminations. 
Pages  146—157. 
J.  Medical  Examinations. 
Pages  146—151. 

First  board  of  medical  examiners  146 

Second  and  third  boards 147 

Rules  and  regulations  established  by  the  regents.  147-151 


XXil  CONTENTS. 

II.  Academic  Examinations 
Pages  151—157. 

Sec.  Page. 

1.  Objects  of  the  general  system   established 151 

2.  Special  object,  subjects  and  testimonial  of  the  prelim- 

inary examination 151,  152 

3.  Plan  and  subjects  of  the  advanced  examinations.  152,  153 

4.  Conditions  of  admission  to  preliminary  examination 

153,  154 

5.  Conditions  of  admission  to   the    advanced  examina- 

tions    ...  154,  155 

6.  Examining  committees;  how  constituted,  and  duty  of.  155 

7.  Preliminary  arrangements 155,  156 

8.  Limitations  to  be  observed 156 

9.  Answer-papers    to    be  examined   and   those   deemed 

satisfactory  transmitted  to  the  regents 156 

10.  Re-examination  of  papers  at  regents'  oflSce  and  notice 

of  result  given 156 

11.  Conditions  on  which  preliminary  certificate  is  granted, 

156,  157 

12.  Conditions  on   which    intermediate    certificate    and 

diploma  are  granted 157 

Chapter  XVIII. 

Forma  of  Anmial  Reports  of  Colleges  and  Academies. 

Pages  158—163. 

/.  Colleges. 
Principal  matters  to  be  reported  upon 158-161 

II.  Academies. 
Principal  matters  to  be  reported  upon 161-163 


CONTENTS.  xxiii 

Chapter  XIX. 

Instruction  of  Common  ScJiool  Teacliers. 

Pages  164—174.    ^ 

Page. 
Form  of  application  by  an  academy,  for  appointment  to 

instruct  a  teacliers'  class,  and  limitations 164,  165 

Number  of  institutions  which  may  regularly  be  appointed 

in  each  county 166 

Instructions    to    be    observed    in    conducting    teachers' 

class 167-172 

Form  of  report  on  instruction  of  teachers'  class 172-174 

Chapter  XX. 

Ilonorary  Degrees, 

Pages  175—181. 

1.  Applications  for  honorary  degrees  to  be  signed  by  two 

or  more  regents  175 

2.  Nominations  for  degrees  to  be  referred  to  committee 

on  degrees 175 

3.  List  of  honorary  degrees  conferred  by  the  regents,  175-181 

Doctor  of  laws 175 

Doctor  of  civil  law 176 

Doctor  of  literature 176 

Doctor  of  philosophy 176,  177 

Doctor  of  medicine 177 

Doctor  of  medicine  of  the  University  of  the  State 

of  New  York 177 

On  nomination  of  State  Medical  Society: 

Doctor  of  medicine 177-181 

On  nomination  of  Homoeopathic  State  Medical  Society: 

Doctor  of  medicine 181 


XXIV  CONTENTS. 

Chapter  XXI. 

Tfie  University  Convocation  of  the  State  of  New  York. 

Pages  182—186. 
Sec.  Page 

1.  Regents'  action  preliminary  to  first  meeting 182 

2.  Objects  to  be  attained 182,   183 

3.  Name  of  organization  designated , 183 

4.  Membership,  how  constituted 183 

5.  Permanent  officers  designated 183 

6.  Time  and  place  of  meeting 183,  184 

7.  Executive  committee  to  be  appointed  by  the  regents,  184 

8.  Representatives  of  colleges  of  other  states  to  be  invited 

to  attend 184 

9.  Committee  of  necrology  to  be  appointed 184 

10.  Duties  of  members  generally  as  to  necrology 184 

11.  Original  resolutions,  etc,  of  1863  to  be  published  with 

each  year's  proceedings ....  184 

12.  13.  Convocation  formally  constituted  and  established 

by  ordinance  of  the  regents 185,  186 

14.  Annual  commencement  of  the  University  established.  186 

Chapter  XXII. 

Tlve  State  Librai'y. 
Pages  187,  188. 

1.  As  to  proper  use  of  law  department 187 

2.  As  to  proper  use  of  general  library 187 

8.  Provision  for  regular  meetings  of  library  committee. .  188 

Chapter  XXIII. 
Miacellaneous  Resolutions, 
Page  189. 
1.  Regents  will  bold    two    general    baslness    sessionfl 

annually,  at  times  designated 189 

8-  Standing  committees  to  attend  on  morning  of  day  fixed 

for  annual  meeting 189 


COITTENTS.  XXV 


4.  Annual  reports  to  be  required  from^trustees  of  acade- 

mies in  which  instruction  has  been  suspended 189 

5.  Institutions    subject  to  visitation   requested  to  insert 

recognition  of  official  connection  with  university  in 
their  catalogues. 189 

Chapter  XXIV. 

Regents  of  the   University. 
Pages  190—211. 

I.  Regents   appointed    under  the  acts  of  the  Legislature 

of  May  1  and    November  26,  1784,  arranged  in  the 
order  of  seniority  as  established  by  the  said  acts.  .190-198 

1.  Ex-officio  regents    190,  191 

2.  Additional  regents 191,  192 

Organization  of  the  board,    May  5,  i784 192 

II.  Regents   appointed    under  the  act  of  April  13,  1787, 

arranged  by  classes,  in  the  order  of  succession  un- 
der each  class.    ., 193-200 

1.  Ex-officio  regents 193-196 

Governors 193,  194 

Lieutenant-Governors 194,  195 

Secretaries  of  State 195 

Superintendents  of  Public  Instruction.  .195,  196 

2.  Regents  appointed  by  the  Legislature 195-200 

III.  Alphabetical  list  of  Regents  of  the  University,  from 

1784  to  1881,  with  dates  of  accession  to  office.  .  .201-209 

IV.  Officers  of  the  Board  of  Regents,  from  its  organization, 

in  1784,  to  1881 : 209,  210 

Chancellors 209 

Vice-chancellors 209,  210 

Secretaries 210 

Assistant  Secretary 210 

Honorary   Secretary 210 

V.  Officers  and   members  of  the  Board  of  Regents  at  the 

close  of  the  Legislative  session  of  1881 211 

C 


STATE^oFnEW  YORK. 


UNITEESITY  MANUAL. 


PART  I. 

LAWS    RELATIVE    TO    THE    UNIVERSITY    OF    THIS 

STATE.  AND  THE  ORGANIZATION  AND 

POWERS  OP  THE  BOARD  OP 

REGENTS. 

[References  to  the  Revised  Statutes  apply  to   the  first  edition,] 


CHAPTER  I. 

ORGAJ^IZATION"   AND   POWERS   OF   THE   BOARD   OF 
REGENTS. 

Section  1.  An  university  is  instituted  in  this  state, 
University,  of  whicli  the  government  is,  and  shall  con- 
tinue to  be,  vested  in  a  board  of  regents. —  [1  R.  S. 
456,  §  1. 

!  §  2.  This  university  is  incorporated  under,  and  is 
Name  and  and  shall  bc  kuown  by,  the  name  of  '^'The 
powers.  Regents  of  the  University  of  the  State  of 
New  York;"  and  by  that  name  shall  have  perpetual 
succession,  power  to  sue  and  be  sued,  to  make  and 
use  a  common  seal  and  alter  the  same  at  pleasure,  to 
hold  property,  real  and  personal,  to  the  amount  of 
the  annual  income  of  forty  tliousand  bushels  of  wheat, 
and  to  buy  and  sell,  and  otherwise  dispose  of,  lands 
and  chattels. — [Idem,  §  2. 


^  LAWS   RELATIVE  TO 

§  3.  The  regents  are  twenty- three  in  nnmber,  in- 
Numberof  eluding  the  governor,  lieutenant-governor, 

regents,  secretary  of  state  and  superintendent  of  pub- 
lic instruction,  who  are  members  of  the  board  by  vir- 
tue of  their  offices. —  [Idem,  §  3  ;  Laws  of  1842,  cli. 
142;  1854,  ch.  97,  §  5. 

§  4.  AVith  the  exception  of  the  governor,  lieutenant- 
How  ap-     governor,  secretary  of  state  and  superintend- 

and"re-      ^^^  ^^  public  instruction,  the  regents  are 

moved.  appointed  by  the  legislature,  and  may  be 
removed  by  a  concurrent  resolution  of  the  senate  and 
assembly.—  [1  E.  S.  457,  §  4. 

§  5.  All  vacancies  happening  in  the  offices  of  those 
Vacancies,   SO  appointed,  shall  be  supplied  by  the  legis- 

piied.  lature,  in  the  manner  in  which  the  state  offi- 
cers are  directed  to  be  appointed,  in  the  fifth  chapter 
of  this  act.—  [1  R.  S.  104,  §  5;  457,  §  5. 

§  6.  No  trustee  of  a  college  or  academy,  shall  act 
Noregenttoas  a  regent of  the  university,  and  no  regent 

tee,  and  no  of  the  University  shall  act  as  trustee  of  any 

regent.  college  or  academy;  and  if  any  such  trustee 
shall  bo  appointed  a  regent,  or  a  regent  shall  be  ap- 
pointed a  trustee,  he  shall  elect  in  which  office  he 
will  serve,  and  give  notice  of  such  election  to  the  au- 
thority by  Avhich  he  shall  be  appointed,  within  sixty 
days  from  the  time  of  his  appointment,  otlierwise 
such  appointment  shall  be  void. —  [1  R.  8.  4G4,  §  53. 
§  7.  No  2n'esident,  princij^al,  or  other  officer  of 
^^ent7)r*'     ^^^y  i^^ich  college  or  academy,  shall  bo  a  regent 

to  bea?^  of  the  university.—  [Idem,  §  52. 

gent. 


THE    BOARD    OF    REGENTS.  3 

§  8.  The  officers  of  this  corporation  are  a  chancel- 
Officers,  lor,  a  yice-chancellor,  a  treasurer  and  a  sec- 
retary,* all  of  whom  are  chosen  by  the  regents,  by 
ballot;  a  plurality  of  votes  being  sufficient  to  a  choice. 
They  hold  their  respective  offices  during  the  pleasure 
of  the  board.—  [1  i^.  S.  457,  §  6. 

§  9.  The  chancellor,  and  if  he  shall  be  absent,  the 

Presiding     vice-cliancellor,  and  if  both  be  absent,  the 

officer.        senior  regent  in  the  order  of  apjoointment, 

shall  preside  at  all  meetings  of  the  regents,  and  have 

a,  casting  vote  in  case  of  a  division. —  [Idem,  §  7. 

§  10.  There  shall  be  an  annual  meeting  of  the  re- 
Annual  gents  on  the  evening  of  the  second  Thursday 
meeting,  jn  January,  in  every  year,  at  the  senate 
chamber  in  the  capitol. —  [Idem,  §  S. 

§  11.  All  meetings,  except  adjourned  meetings,  shall 
^,,  be  held  at  such  time  and  place  as  the  chan- 

Other  ^ 

meetings,  cellor,  or  in  case  his  office  be  vacant,  or  he 
be  absent  from  the  state,  the  vice-chancellor,  or  if  he 
be  also  absent,  or  the  offices  of  both  be  vacant,  the 
senior  regent  in  the  state,  shall  appoint. —  [Idem,  §  9. 
§  12.  Six  regents  attending,  shall  be  a  board  for  the 
Quorum,  transaction  of  business;  and  the  regents  pres- 
ent, whether  a  quorum  or  otherwise,  shall  have  power 
to  adjourn  from  time  to  time,  not  exceeding  ten  days 
at  a  time. —  [Idem,  §  10,  Laivs  of  1853,  ch.  184,  §  5. 
§  13.  A  meeting  shall  be  ordered  and  called  by  the 
Calling  of    officer  authorized  to  appoint  the  same,  as 

meetings,   ^f^^g^  j^g  three  regents,  in  writing,  so  request : 

*  For  many  years,  the  secretary  has  acted  as  treasurer,  and  since 
1866  the  office  of  assistant  secretary  has  been  recognized  and  pro- 
vided for  in  the  annual  appropriation  act 


4  LAWS    RELATIVE   TO 

and  the  order  shall  be  jDublished  in  the  state  paper  at 
least  ten  days  prior  to  the  meeting. —  [1  E.  S.  457, 

§11. 

§  14.  If  any  regent  shall  not  attend  at  least  once 
Non-at-  ^^  ^^^y  ^^  ^^^^  meetings  of  the  regents  to  be 
tendance,  held  during  any  session  of  the  legislature, 
when  by  law  they  are  required  to  meet,  without  some 
just  cause  satisfactory  to  the  board  of  regents,  such 
non-attendance  shall  be  deemed  a  resignation  of  their 
seats,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  regents  to  re- 
port to  the  legislature,  from  time  to  time,  the  names 
of  the  members  whose  seats  shall  thus  become  vacant, 
to  the  end  that  the  same  may  be  supplied. —  [Latvs  of 
1815,  ch.  207;  1845,  ch.  179,  §  3. 

§  15.  The  treasurer  shall  keep  an  account  of  all 
Treasurer,  moucys  by  him  received  and  paid  on  t. —  [1  R. 
S.  457,  §  12. 

§  16.  The  secretary  shall  keep  a  journal  of  the 
Secretary,  proceedings  of  the  regents,  in  which  the  ayes 
and  noes  on  all  questions  shall  be  entered,  if  requested 
by  any  one  of  the  regents  present. —  [Idem,  §  13. 

§  17.  Each  regent  may  always  have  access  to,  and 

Books  and  ^^  permitted  to  take  copies  of,  all  the  books 

papers.       and  papers  of  the  corporation. —  [Idem,  g  14. 

§  18.  The  regents  are  authorized  and  required,  by 
,     themselves  or  their  committees,  to  visit  and 

Power  of  -1  T        .      •     i  I  • 

visitation,  inspect  all  the  colleges  and  academies  in  this 
state,  examine  into  the  condition  and  system  of  edu- 
cation and  discipline  therein,  and  make  an  annual 
report   of  the  state  of  the  same  to  the  legislature, 


THE    BOARD    OF    REGENTS.  5 

within  ten  days  after  the  opening  of  the  session  in 
each  year. —  [Idem,  §  15,  Laws  of  1855,  ch.  50,  §  3. 

§  19.  The  regents  of  the  university  shall  have  full 
Visitation,  power  to  examine  by  themselves  or  their 
secretary,  into  the  manner  in  which  all  institutions 
of  learning  subject  to  their  visitation  are  conducted, 
to  the  end  that  they  may  report  the  same  to  the  leg- 
islature.— [Latvs  of  1857,  ch.  527,  §  3. 

§  20.  The  regents  shall  have  the  right  of  conferring, 
May  confer  ^^  diploma  uuder  their  common  seal,  on  any 
degrees,  person  Avhom  they  may  judge  worthy  thereof, 
such  degrees,  above  that  of  master  of  arts,  as  are  known 
to,  and  usually  granted  by,  any  college  or  university 
in  Europe.*— [1  R.  S.  458,  §  18. 

§  21.  A  degree  of  doctor  of  medicine,  granted  by 
De  reesof  ^^^^  regents,  shall  authorize  the  person  on 
M.  D.  whom  it  is  conferred,  to  practice  physic  and 
surgery  within  this  state.f  —  [Idem,  §  19. 

§  22.  No  person  shall  receive  from  the  regents  of 
Requisites  the  University  a  diploma,  conferring  the  de- 
o/m^b^^  gree  of  doctor  of  medicine,  unless  he  shall 
have  pursued  the  study  of  medical  science  for  at 
least  three  years,  after  the  age  of  sixteen,  with  some 
physician  and  surgeon,  duly  authorized,  by  law, 
to  practice  his  profession,  and  shall  also,  after  the 


*  The  trustees  of  the  New  York  College  of  Dentistry  have  power  to 
grant  the  degree  of  "doctor  of  dental  surgery,"  and  "fellow  of  the 
college  of  dentistry,"  with  the  consent  of  the  regents.  [Laws  of 
1865,  ch.  264,  §  5 ;  1867,  ch .  243.] 

+  The  right  reserved  to  the  regents  by  the  act  of  Aprils.  1813,  to 
confer  degrees,  appoint  profes'^ors.  fill  vacancies  in  the  board  of 
trustees,  etc.,  in  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  the  city 
of  New  York,  was  granted  to,  and  vested  in  the  trustees  of  said 
college,  by  the  act  of  March  24, 1860.    [Laws  of  1860,  ch.  Ill,  §  1.1 


6  LAWS  RELATIVE  TO 

same  age,  have  attended  two  complete  courses  of 
all  the  lectures  delivered  in  an  incorporated  medical 
college,  and  have  attended  tlie  last  of  such  courses, 
in  the  college  by  which  he  shall  be  recommended  for 
his  degree.— [1  R.  S.  454,  §  12.- 

§  23.  The  regents  of  the  university  may  in  their  dis- 
Honorary     cretiou  Confer  the  honorary  degree  of  doctor 

M.^D.^  "  of  medicine  upon  such  persons,  not  to  exceed 
four  in  any  one  year,  as  may  be  recommended  to 
them  for  that  purpose,  by  the  medical  society  of  this 
state,  but  such  honorary  degree  shall  in  no  case  be 
a  license  to  practice  physic  or  surgery.* — [Laws  of 
1840,  ch.  366. 

§  24.  In  case  tlie  trustees  of  any  college  shall  leave 
Vacancies    *^^^  officc  of  president  of  the  college,  or  the 

in  colleges  trustees  of    auv  academy   shall   leave    the 

and  acade-  .       . "  -^ 

niies.  office  of  principal  of  the  academy,  vacant, 
for  tlie  space  of  one  year,  the  regents  shall  fill  up  such 
vacancy,  unless  a  reasonable  cause  shall  be  assigned 
for  such  delay,  to  their  satisfaction. — [1  JL  S.  458, 
§20. 

§  25.  The  person  so  appointed,  shall  continue  in 
office  during  the  pleasure  of  the  regents,  and  shall 
^a^ppSntee.  ^^^^^^  ^^^^  ^amc  powcrs,  and  the  same  salary, 
emoluments  and  privileges,  as  his  next  immediate 
predecessor  in  office  enjoyed. — [Idem,  §  21. 

§  26.  If  such  president  or  principal  had  no  imme- 
^aiary"^  °*  diatc  prcdcccssor  in  officc,  he  shall  have  such 

♦  similar  prlvileRea  are  extended  to  the  Homoeopathic  Medical 
Society  and  the  Dental  Society  of  this  state.  [Laws  of  1863,  ch.  268, 
8  3;  1868.  ch.  153,814.] 


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salary  as  the  regents  shall  direct,  to  be  paid  by  the 
trustees  out  of  the  funds  or  property  of  their  college 
or  academy.  —  Idem,  ^  22. 

§  27.  The  income  arising  from  any  real  or  personal 
Accumuia-  Pi'^^P^i'ty  granted  or  conveyed,  devised  or 
come*from  t)equeathed  in  trust  to  any  incorporated  col- 
trust  funds,  lege  or  other  incorporated  literary  institution 
for  any  of  the  purposes  specified  in  the  '-act  author- 
izing certain  trusts,"  passed  May  14,  1840,  or  for  the 
purpose  of  providing  for  the  support  of  any  teacher 
in  a  grammar  school  or  institute,  may  be  permitted 
to  accumulate  till  the  same  shall  amount  to  a 
sum  sufficient,  in  the  opinion  of  the  regents  of  the 
university,  to  carry  into  effect  either  of  the  purposes 
aforesaid,  designated  in  said  trust.  —  [Laws  o/M846, 
ch.  74;  1840,  ch.  318. 

§  28.  Grants  made  to  the  regents  for  certain  uses 
Grants  to  ^^^^^  purposcs,  shall  uot  be  applied,  either 
regents,  wholly  or  in  part,  to  any  other  uses.  —  [IE. 
S.  458,  §  17. 

§  29.  The  regents  shall  have  power  to  make  such 
Power  to  by-laws  and  ordinances,  as  they  shall  judge 
2ws^  ^  most  expedient,  for  the  accomplishment  of 
the  trust  reposed  in  them.  —  [Idem,  §  16. 

§  30.   The  regents  of  the  university  of  the  state  of 

Power  to      ^^^^  York,  and  any  committee 'thereof,  in 

tSJsorS'      ^^^®  discharge  of  any  duty  required  by  law, 

andpapers.or  by  resolution  of  the  senate  or  assembly, 

may  require  any  proof  or  information  relating  thereto, 

to  be  verified  by  oath,  and  shall  for  such  purposes 


8  LA^VS    RELATIVE  TO 

(and  no  other)  have  the  powers  now  by  law  vested 
in  any  committee  of  either  house  authorized  to  send 
for  persons  and  papers.  —  [Lcms  of  1839,  eh.  226  ;  1 
E.  S.  158,  §     . 

§  31.  The  regents  of  the  university  of  the  state  of 
Examiners  ^ew  York  shall  appoint  one  or  more  boards 
cine.^^'"  of  examiners  in  medicine,  each  board  to 
consist  of  not  less  than  seven  members,  who  shall 
have  been  licensed  to  practice  physic  and  surgery 
in  this  state.  —  Laius  of  1872,  ch.  710,  §  1. 

§  32.  Such  examiners  shall  faithfully  examine  all 
Report  re-  Candidates  referred  to  them  for  that  pur- 
quired.  pQgg  i^y  ^j^Q  chancellor  of  said  university 
and  furnish  him  a  detailed  report  in  writing  of  all 
the  questions  and  answers  of  each  examination, 
together  with  a  separate  written  opinion  of  each 
examiner  as  to  the  acquirements  and  merits  of  the 
candidates  in  each  case. —  [Idem,  §  2. 

§  33.  Such  examinations  shall  be  in  anatomy,  phy- 
Subjects.  siology,  materia  medica,  pathology,  his- 
tology, clinical  medicine,  chemistry,  surgery,  mid- 
wifery and  in  the  therapeutics  of  that  one  of  the 
systems  of  practice  represented  in  the  several  incor- 
porated state  medical  societies  of  this  state  which  the 
candidate  may  elect. —  [Idem,  §3;  Ln^cs  0/I88I,  ch. 
670,  §  1.         ' 

§  34.  The  said  reports  of  examinations,  and  the 

Reports  to   i^nuexed   opinions  of  the   examiners,  shall 

be  filed,      forever  be  a   part  of  the  jiublic  records   of 

the  said  university,  and  the  orders  of  the  chancellor 

addressed  to  the  examiners,  together  with  the  actioa 


THE   BOARD   OF    REGENTS.  » 

of  the  regents,  in  each  case  shall  accompany  tlie 
same.  —  Idem,  §  4, 

§  35.  Any  person  over  twenty-one  years  of  age,  of 
good  moral  character  and  paying  not  less 
and  fee.  than  thirty-fivc  dollars  into  the  treasury  of 
the  university,  and  on  applying  to  the  chancellor 
for  the  aforesaid  examination  shall  receive  an  order 
to  that  effect,  addressed  to  one  of  the  boards  of 
examiners,  provided  he  shall  adduce  proofs  satisfac- 
tory to  the  chancellor,  that  he  or  she  has  a  competent 
knowledge  of  all  the  branches  of  learning  taught  in 
the  common  schools  of  this  state,  and  of  the  Latin 
language,  and  that  he  has  diligently  studied  medicine 
not  less  than  three  years,  under  the  direction  of  one 
or  more  physicians  duly  qualified  to  practice  medicine, 
or  has  himself  heen  licensed,  on  examination,  by 
some  medical  society  or  college  legally  empowered  to 
issue  licenses  or  degrees  in  medicine.  —  \_Idem,  §  5. 

§  30.  The  regents  of  the  university,  on  receiving- 
Diploma,  the  aforesaid  reports  of  the  examiners,  and 
on  finding  that  not  less  than  five  members  of  a 
board  have  voted  in  favor  of  a  candidate,  shall  issue 
to  him  or  her  a  diploma  conferring  the  degree  of 
doctor  of  medicine  of  the  university  of  the  state  of 
New  York,  which  degree  shall  be  a  license  to  practice 
physic  and  surgery.  —  ^Idem,  §  6. 

§  37.   The  candidate   on   receiving    said   diploma 

Fee  for        shall  j^ay  to  the  university  the  further  sum 

diploma,     of  not  less  than  ten  dollars.  —  [Idem,  §  7. 

§  38.  The  moneys  paid  to  the  university  as  afore- 


10  LAWS    RELATIVE  TO 

Expenses,  said  sliall  be  appropriated  by  the  regents  for 
the  expenses  of  executing  the  provisions  of  this 
act.  —  [Iclein,  §  8. 

§  39.  The  regents  may  establish  such  rules  and 
Rules.  regulations,  from  time  to  time,  as  they 
may  deem  necessary  to  insure  the  faithful  execution 
of  the  provisions  of  this  act.  —  [Idem,  §  9. 

§  40.  The  regents  of  the  university  are  hereby 
Boundaries  'i^^thorized  and  directed  to  resume  the  work 
ofthestate.of  ^'examination  as  to  the  true  location  of 
the  monuments  which  mark  the  several  boundaries 
of  tlie  state,"  as  authorized  by  the  resolution  of  the 
senate  of  April  nineteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty-seven,  and  in  connection  with  the  authorities  of 
Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey  respectively,  to  replace 
any  monuments  which  have  become  dilapidated  or 
been  removed,  on  the  boundary  lines  of  those 
'states.  —  [Laws  of  1875,  ch.  424,  §  1. 

§  41.  The  sum  of  three  tliousand  dollars,  or  so 
Expenses,  much  thereof  as  may  be  necessary,  is  hereby 
appropriated  for  expenses  of  renewing  and  replacing 
monuments,  and  for  contingent  expenses.  —  [Idemy 

§2- 

§  42.  The  regents  shall  report  to  the  legislature  on 
Report.  the  progress  of  tliis  work,  with  an  account 
of  all  expenditures.  —  [/r/ew,  §  3. 

§  43.  Whereas,  by  an  act  of  the  legislature,  2Dassed 
the  twenty-sixth  day  of  May,  eighteen  liundred  aud 
seventy-five,  the  regents  of  the  university  were  au- 
thorized and  directed,  "in  connection  with  the  author- 


THE  BOARD  OF  REGENTS.  11 

ities  of  Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey^  respectively,  to 
replace  any  monuments  which  have  become  dilapi- 
dated or  been  removed,  on  the  boundary  lines  of  those 
states; "  and,  whereas,  from  the  examination  made 
by  said  regents  it  has  been  found  that  said  monu- 
ments, as  located  by  the  original  joint  commissioners, 
do  not  conform  in  all  cases  to  the  verbal  descriptions 
^,^,.        of  said  lines,  and  questions  have  arisen  be- 

Old  lines  '  ^ 

recog-  tween  the  commissioners  of  ^aid  states  as  to 
the  proper  location  of  said  monuments;  there- 
fore, it  is  hereby  declared  that  the  lines  originally 
laid  down  and  marked  with  monuments  by  tlie  sev- 
eral joint  commissions  duly  appointed  for  that  pur- 
pose, and  which  have  since  been  acknowledged  and 
legally  recognized  by  the  several  states  interested,  as 
the  limits  of  their  territory  and  jurisdiction,  are  the 
boundary  lines  of  said  states,  irrespective  of  want  of 
conformity  to  the  verbal  descriptions  thereof.  —  [Laws 
of  1880,  ch.  340,  §  1. 

§  44.   Said  regents  are  hereby  authorized  and  em- 
powered to  designate  and  appoint  three  of  their  num- 
.     ber  as  commissioners  to  meet  such  commis- 

Commis- 

to°beap-  sioners  as  have  been  or  maybe  appointed  and 
P°*"  ^  ■  vested  with  similar  powers,  on  the  part  of  the 
staj;es  of  Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey,  or  either  of 
them,  and  with  such  last  mentioned  commissioners, 
as  soon  as  may  be,  to  proceed  to  ascertain  and  agree 


12  LAWS  RELATIVE  TO 

upon  the  location  of  said  lines  as  originally  established 
and  marked  with  monuments;  and  in  case  any  monu- 
ments are  found  dilapidated  or  removed  from  their 
original  location,  said  commissioners  are  authorized  to 
renew  or  replace  them  in  a  durable  manner,  in  their 
original  positions,  and  to  erect  such  additional  monu- 
ments at  such  places  on  said  lines  as  they  may  deem 
necessary  for  the  proper  designation  of  the  boundary 
lines  of  said  states.  The  said  regents  shall  report  the 
action  of  said  commissioners  to  the  legislature  of  this 
state  for  its  consideration  and  ratification. — [idem, 

§2- 

§  45.  The  sum   of   three  thousand  dollars,  or  so 

much  thereof  as  may  be  necessary,  is  hereby  appro- 
priated out  of  any  moneys  in  the  treasury 
priation.  applicable  for  such  purposes,  to  pay  the  ne- 
cessary expenses  and  disbursements  of  said  commis- 
sioners in  the  performance  of  the  duties  required  by 
this  act,  and  the  comptroller  is  authorized  to  draw  his 
warrant  upon  the  treasurer  for  moneys  hereby  appro- 
priated, from  time  to  time,  as  the  same  may  be  needed. 
—  [Idem,  §  3. 

§  46.  The  treasurer  shall  pay  yearly,  on  the 
Appro-  warrant  of  the  comptroller,  out  of  the 
FoAigh-  income  of  the  United  States  deposit  fund, 

er  exam- 

inations.  j^ot  otherwise  appropriated,  the  sum  of  five 


THE   BOARD    OF    REGENTS.  13 

thousand  dollars  to  the  regents  of  the  university  for 
establishing  and  conducting  examinations  as  to 
attainments  in  learning  under  the  direction  of  the 
said  regents,  as  hereinafter  provided  for.  —  [Laws  of 
1877,  oh.  425,  §  1. 

§  47.  The  regents  of  the  university  shall  establish 
Plan  of  in  the  academies  and  academic  depart- 
anfinations.  Hicnts  of  uuiou  schools,  subjcct  to  tlieir 
visitation,  examinations  in  such  branches  of  study 
as  are  commonly  taught  in  the  same,  and  shall  deter- 
mine the  rules  and  regulations  in  accordance  with 
which  they  shall  be  conducted  ;  said  examinations 
shall  be  prescribed  in  such  studies,  and  shall  be 
arranged  and  conducted  in  such  a  manner,  as  in  the 
judgment  of  the  regents,  will  furnish  a  suitable 
standard  of  graduation  from  the  said  academies  and 
academic  departments  of  union  schools,  and  of  admis- 
sion to  the  several  colleges  of  the  state;  and  they  shall 
Diplomas,  confer  such  honorary  certificates  or  diplomas 
as  they  may  deem  expedient  upon  those  pupils  who 
satisfactorily  pass  such  examinations.  And  the  said 
regents  are  hereby  authorized  to  establish  examina- 
tions as  to  attainments  in  learning  of  any  persons 
applying  for  admission  to  the  same,  to  prescribe 
rules  and  regulations  for  the  admission  of  candidates 
to  said  examinations,  and  for  conducting  them,  and 
to  confer  and  award  such  degrees,  honorary  testimo- 
nials or  diplomas  to  persons  who  satisfactorily  pass 
such  examinations,  as  the  said  regents  may  deem 
expedient.    They  shall  audit  and  certify  to  the  comp- 


14  LAWS   RELATIVE  TO 

troller  all  accounts  for  the  expenses  of  establishing 
Expenses,  and  conducting  such  examinations  and  all 
<3ontingent  expenses  attending  the  same,  and  the 
amounts  tliereof  shall  be  paid  from  the  appropriation 
for  this  purpose  made  in  the  first  section  of  this 
act.—  [Idem,  §  6. 

§  48.  Copies  of  and  extracts  from  any  and  all 
Copies  of  I'ecords,  books,  papers,  documents,  files  and 
may^be^read  n^^nuscripts  in  the  posscssion  or  custody  of 
in  evidence,  tj^e  regents  of  the  university  as  such,  or  as 
trustees  of  the  State  library,  or  otherwise,  in  their 
official  capacity,  and  duly  authenticated  under  the 
hand  of  the  chancellor  or  secretary,  and  under  the 
common  seal  of  the  said  regents,  as  a  true  copy  of 
such  original  and  of  the  whole  thereof  as  aforesaid, 
may  be  used  and  read  in  evidence  in  all  courts  and 
places  in  this  State,  with  the  same  force  and  effect  as 
the  originals  might  be,  if  produced. —  [Latvs  of  1S70, 
oh.  60,  §  1.     (Repeated  under  Chapters  II  and  VI.)  . 


INCORPORATIOif   or   COLLEGES,  ETC.  15 


CHAPTER  11. 

INCORPORATIOif  OF  COLLEGES,  ACADEMIES,  AI^D  LAIT- 
CASTERIAK  AI^D  SELECT  SCHOOLS. 

Sec.  1.  Any  citizen  or  citizens,  or  bodies  corporate 
Literary  withiii  tliis  state,  being  disposed  to  found  a 
how^fncor-  College  at  any  place  within  the  same,  he  or 
porated.  j^\^Qy  gliall,  in  Writing,  make  known  to  the 
regents  the  place  where,  the  plan  on  which,  and  the 
funds  with  which,  it  is  intended  to  found  and  provide 
for  the  same,  and  wdio  are  proposed  for  the  first  trus- 
tees ;  and  in  case  the  regents  shall  approve  thereof, 
then  they  shall  declare  their  approbation  by  an  in- 
strument under  their  common  seal,  and  allow  a  con- 
venient time  for  completing  the  same  ;  and  if  at  the 
expiration  of  the  said  time,  it  shall  appear  to  the  sat- 
isfaction of  the  regents,  that  the  said  plan  and  propo- 
sitions are  fully  executed,  then  they  shall,  by  act 
under  their  common  seal,  declare  that  the  said  col- 
lege, to  be  named  as  the  founders  shall  signify,  and 
with  such  trustees  not  exceeding  twenty- four,  nor  less 
than  ten,  as  they  shall  name,  shall  forthwith  become 
incorporated,  and  shall  have  perpetual  succession,  and 
enjoy  all  the  corporate  rights  and  privileges  enjoyed 
by  Columbia  College,  in  and  by  the  act  entitled  "  An 
act  to  institute  an  university  within  this  state,  and 
for  other  purposes  therein  mentioned,"  passed  April 
13,  1787.— [Z«W5  0/1813,  ch.  59,  §  6. 


16  LAWS  EELATIVE  TO 

§  2.  The  founders  and  benefactors  of  any  academy, 
Academies,  or  as  many  of  them,  as  shall  have  contrib- 
porated^'^'  uted  more  than  one-half  in  value  of  the 
property  collected  for  the  use  thereof,  may  make  to 
the  regents  an  application  in  writing  under  their 
hands,  requesting  that  such  academy  may  be  incor- 
porated, nominating  the  first  trustees,  and  specifying 
the  name  by  which  the  corporation  is  to  be  called. — 
£1  R.  S.  461,  §  38. 

§  3.  In  case  the  regents  shall  approve  thereof,  they 
Idem.  shall,  by  an  instrument  under  their  common 

seal,  declare  their  approbation  of  the  incorporation 
of  the  trustees  of  such  academy,  by  the  name  speci- 
fied in  such  application  ;  and  the  request,  and  instru- 
ment of  approbation,  shall  be  recorded  in  the  office 
of  the  secretary  of  the  board  of  regents.* — [Idem,  § 
39  ;  Laws  of  1855,  ch.  471,  §  1. 

§  4.  Immediately  after  recording  the  same,  the 
Property,  property  and  funds  of  such  academy,  shall 
vested,  be  vestcd  in  the  trustees  so  nominated,  for 
the  use  and  benefit  of  the  academy. — [1  R.  S.  462,  §  40.  • 

§  5.  The  regents  of  the  university  shall,  by  general 
Regents  rulcs  and  regulations  to  be  established  by 
rules,  etc.  them  from  time  to  time,  prescribe  the  requi- 
sites and  conditions  for  the  incorporation  by  them  of 
any  college,  university,  academy  or  other  institution 
of  learning,  pursuant  to  the  power  vested  in  the  said 
regents  by  the  act  entitled  "An  act  relative  to  the 
University,"  passed  April  5,  1813,  and  by  the  Re- 
vised Statutes  of  this  state.     The  said  regents  are 

♦  These  were  previously  recorded  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of 
state. 


INCORPORATION"  OF  COLLEGES,  ETC.       17 

Power  to  in-  hereby  empowered  at  any  time  by  an  instru- 
unde^/the  ment  under  their  common  seal,  Avhicli  shall 
actof  1853.  i^g  i-ecorded  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of 
the  board  of  regents,*  to  incorporate  any  university 
or  college,  or  any  academy,  or  other  institution  of 
learning  under  such  name,  with  such  number  of 
trustees  or  other  managers,  and  with  such  jiowers 
and  privileges  and  subject  to  such  limitations  and 
restrictions,  in  all  respects  as  may  be  prescribed  by 
law,  or  as  the  said  regents  shall  deem  proper  in  con- 
formity thereto;  and  every  institution  so  incorpo- 
rated, in  addition  to  the  powers  Avhich  may  be  vested 
in  them  as  aforesaid,  shall  have  the  general  powers 
of  a  corporation  under  the  Revised  Statutes  of  this 
State.— [Lmus  of  1853,  ch.  181,  §  1. 

§  6.  Any  citizens  not  less  than  ten  in  number,  of 
Medical  col-  whom  a  majority  shall  be  inhabitants  of  this 
incorpo'd.  state,  who  may  desire  to  found  or  endow  a 
medical  or  surgical  college  or  school  within  this  state, 
may  make,  sign  and  acknowledge,  before  some  officer 
autliorized  to  take  the  acknoAvledgment  of  deeds,  a 
certificate  in  writing,  in  which  shall  be  stated  the  cor- 
porate name  of  the  proposed  institution,  the  names  of 
the  persons  proposed  for  first  trustees,  the  plan  on 
which  and  the  funds  with  which  it  is  intended  to 
found  and  provide  for  said  institution,  and  the  name 
of  the  town  or  city  in  which  it  is  proposed  to  locate 
the  same;  and  shall  file  such  certificate  in  the  office 
of  the  secretary  of  the  board  of  regents,*  and  trans- 


*  Laws  of  1855,  ch.  471,  §  1. 


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18  LAWS   RELATIVE   TO 

mit  a  duplicate  thereof  to  the  presiding  officer  of  the 
regents  of  the  university  of  the  state  of  New  York. — 
[Idem,  §  6. 

§  7.  If  it  shall  appear  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  re- 
idera.  gents  of  the  university  that  the  sum  of  fifty 
thousand  dollars  has  been  subscribed  in  good  faith 
for  the  endowment  of  such  institution  by  the  valid 
subscription  of  responsible  parties,  and  that  at  least 
two-thirds  of  that  sum  has  been  actually  paid  in  or 
secured  in  such  manner  as  the  regents  may  approve,  to 
be  invested  in  buildings  and  site  for  college,  museum, 
library,  apparatus  and  other  needful  appurtenan- 
ces of  a  medical  college,  or  in  bonds  and  mortgages  on 
unincumbered  real  estate  or  stocks  of  the  United  States 
or  of  this  state,  they  shall,  by  act  under  their  seal, 
grant  a  charter  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this  act 
for  the  incorporation  of  such  college  (naming  therein, 
as  first  trustees,  the  persons  specified  in  said  certifi- 
cate) for  a  term  of  five  years,  with  a  condition  or 
proviso  therein,  that  if,  within  the  said  term  of  five 
years,  the  trustees  of  said  college  shall  present  to  the 
regents  satisfactory  evidence  that  there  has  been  paid 
in  and  invested,  as  above  prescribed,  the  whole  of  said 
sum  of  fifty  thousand  dollars,  the  charter  thereof 
shall  be  made  perpetual.  Upon  the  fulfillment  of 
said  condition,  or  upon  the  payment  in  the  first  in- 
stance of  the  said  sum  of  fifty  thousand  dollars,  the 
said  regents  shall  grant  said  college  a  perpetual 
charter. — [Idem,  §  7. 

§  8.  Such  college  may  hold  and  possess   real  and 


IXCORPORATION  OF  COLLEGES,   ETC.  19 

Amount  of  persoiial  property  to  the  amount  of  two  luiii- 
tharma^y  ^^'^^  thousand  (lolhu's  ;  but  the  funds  or 
beheld,  property  thereof  shall  not  be  used  for  any 
other  purpose  than  for  the  legitimate  business  of  such 
institution,  in  the  promotion  of  medical  and  surgical 
science,  and  instruction  in  all  departments  of  learning 
connected  therewith. — [Idem,  §  8. 

§  9.  Such  college  shall  be  subject  to  the  general 
Subject  to  provisions  of  the  Ee vised  Statutes,  so  far  as 
of  regents,  the  Same  are  applicable,  regulating  the  prac- 
tice of  physic  and  surgery  within  this  state.  It  shall 
be  subject  to  the  visitation  of  the  regents  of  the  uni- 
versity, and  shall  make  an  annual  report  to  them,  on 
oath,  of  the  condition  of  said  college  and  the  various 
matters  required  by  law  to  be  reported  by  other  col- 
leges and  academies,  and  of  the  investment  of  the 
funds  of  said  college  ;  and  if  at  any  time  it  shall 
appear  that  the  sum  required  to  be  paid  in  has  not 
been  invested  in  the  manner  specified  in  the  seventh 
section  of  tliis  act,  the  regents  of  the  nniversity  are 
hereby  empowered  to  vacate  and  annul  said  charter. 
—Idem,  §  9. 

§  10.  Every  institution  incorporated  under  this  act 
Subject  to    shall  have  and  possess  all  the  powers  and 
Hawiities,  pi'iviloges,  and  be  subject  to  the  provisions, 
^^^'  liabilities  and  restrictions  of  the  eighteenth 

chapter  of  the  first  part  of  the  Eevised  Statutes,  so 
far  as  the  same  are  applicable  and  have  not  been  re- 
pealed. The  board  of  trustees,  which  shall  consist 
Trustees,     of  not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  twenty- 


20  LAWS  KELATIVE  TO 

four  persons,  shall  have  power  to  make  all  needful 
by-laws  and  rules  for  the  government  and  regulation 
of  said  college,  the  appointment  of  professors,  in- 
structors, and  other  officers  thereof,  the  term  of  office 
and  election  of  trustees,  and  so  forth,  not  inconsistent 
with  this  act  and  the  laws  of  this  state.  Such  by-laws 
may  be  altered  or  amended  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds 
of  the  members  constituting  said  board,  notice  being 
given  at  a  j^revious  regular  meeting  of  said  board. — 
[Idem,  §  10. 

§  11.  The  trustees  for  the  time  being,  of  every  col- 
Trustees  lege  incorporated  pursuant  to  this  act  shall 
degree 'o?'^  have  powcr  to  grant  and  confer  the  degree 
of  doctor  of  medicine  upon  the  recommenda- 
tion of  the  board  of  professors  of  said  college,  and 
of  at  least  three  curators  of  tlie  medical  profession 
appointed  by  said  trustees.  But  no  person  shall  re- 
ceive a  diploma,  conferring  sucli  degree,  unless  he  be 
of  good  moral  character  and  of  tlie  age  of  twenty-one 
years,  and  shall  have  received  a  good  English  educa- 
tion, and  shall  have  pursued  the  study  of  medicine 
and  the  sciences  connected  therewith  for  at  least  three 
years  after  tlie  age  of  sixteen  years,  and  have  received 
instruction  from  some  physician  and  surgeon,  fully 
qualified  to  practice  his  profession,  until  he  is  qualified 
to  enter  a  medical  college,  and  (except  in  cases  here- 
after provided)  shall  also  after  that  age  have  attended 
two  complete  courses  of  lectures  delivered  in  some 
incorporated  medical  college. — [Idem,  §  11. 

§  12.  The  board  of  trustees  of  every  such  college 


IXCOEPOEATION  OF  ACADEMIES.  21 

inai'^ent  shall,  iipoii  payment  of  matriculation  and 
scholars,  clemonstrator's  fees  (which  shall  not  exceed 
the  sum  of  five  dollars  each),  admit  to  its  course  of 
instruction,  without  further  charge,  any  number  of 
young  persons  of  the  state  of  New  York  (not  exceed- 
ing ten  at  any  one  time),  of  good  scholarship  and 
moral  character,  who  are  in  indigent  circumstances ; 
the  evidence  of  qualification  shall  be  a  certificate 
from  the  judge  of  the  county  in  which  the  applicant 
resides. —  [Idem,  §  12. 

§  13.  It  shall  be  lawful  for  any  academy  or  high 
stock  cor-  school  for  literary,  scientific,  charitable  or 
how^^°"^'  I'cligious  purposes,  to  issue,  create  and  pos- 
formed.  gggg  ^  capital  stock  not  exceeding  fifty  thou- 
sand dollars,  which  stock  shall  be  deemed  personal 
property  and  shall  be  issued  in  shares  of  not  less  than 
ten  dollars  each  to  the  several  persons  subscribing  for 
and  paying  in  the  same:  and  in  the  election  of 
trustees' of  any  such  corporation,  each  stockholder 
shall  be  entitled  to  give  one  vote  upon  each  share  of 
stock  actually  owned  by  him  at  the  time  of  such 
election. — [Laws  of  1851,  ch.  544,  §  1  ;  Zaws  of 
1853,  ch.  184,  §  4. 

§  14.  Whenever  any  such  corporation  formed  for 
Idem.  the  purpose  of  establishing  an  academy  or 
high  school  shall  have  erected  a  building  for  school 
purposes  of  the  value  of  two  thousand  dollars,  and 
shall  in  all  other  respects  comply  with  the  conditions 
provided  by  law  to  authorize  the  regents  to  incorpo- 
rate academies,  said  corporation  shall  be  declared  an 


22  LAWS    RELATIVE    TO 

academy  by  the  regents  of  the  university,  and  shall 
enjoy  all  the  rights  and  privileges  conferred  by  law 
on  the  academies  of  this  state. —  [Ide?n,  §  2. 

§  15.  No  academy  or  institution  of  learning  shall 
Dividends,  hereafter  pay  to  its  stockholders,  shareholders, 
or  other  persons  claiming  rights  of  ownership  therein, 
any  dividends,  or  any  portion  of  its  earnings  or  other 
income,  from  whatever  source  derived,  while  there  is 
any  outstanding  indebtedness  against  the  said  acad- 
emy or  institution. — [Zmos  of  1859,  ch.  426,  §  1.     \ 

§  16.  The  said  regents  may  at  any  time,  on  sufti-\ 
Regents     cient  causc  shown,  and  by  an  instrument  un-   ) 

may  alter,  ,  ,     .  ,  ,  ,    -  k 

amend  or  der   their   common   seal,  to  be  recorded  as     > 

repeal 

charters,  aforcsaid,  alter,  amend  or  repeal  the  charter 
of  any  college,  university,  academy  or  other  institu- 
tion of  learning,  which  may  hereafter  be  incorporated 
by  them ;  and  may,  on  the  petition  of  any  college, 
academy  or  other  institution  of  learning  in  this  state, 
now  existing  and  subject,  or  which  may  hereafter  be- 
come subject  to  their  visitation,  alter  or  modify  the  / 
charter,  and  the  rights,  powers  and  privileges  of  such 
institution,  in  such  manner  and  on  such  terms  and 
conditions  as  they  may  deem  proper. — [Laws  of  1853, 
ch.  184,  §  2. 

§  1 7.  All  applications  for  charters  for  colleges  and 
Charters,     academies,  and  all  charters  of  colleges  and 

etc.,  where  .  t    i  ,  t%      i 

recorded,    academies,  granted  by  the  regents  of  the 

university,  and  all  amendments  or  alterations  of 
the  same,  shall  be  recorded  in  the  office  of  the  secre- 
tary of  the  board  of  regents,  instead  of  the  office  of 
the  secretary  of  state. — [Laws  of  1855,  ch.  471,  §  1. 


ACADEMICAL    DEPARTMENTS.  2S 

§  18.  The  fees  for  recording  applications  as  to  col- 
legjes  and  academies,  and  for  other  services 

Pees.  °      .  ' 

abolished,  mentioned  in  the  second  section  of  the  said 
act  hereby  amended,  are  hereby  abolished. —  [.Laws 
0/1870,  ch.  60,  §  2. 

§  19.  The  said  regents  are  also  hereby  authorized 
Record  of  to  cause  to  be  transcribed  into  a  book,  to  be 

dr  ers.  ^^  them  provided  and  kept  for  that  purpose, 
all  applications  for  charters  of  colleges  or  academies, 
all  charters  thereupon  granted,  and  all  amendments 
to  the  same  at  present  found  recorded  in  book  of 
deeds  number  forty-three,  now  remaining  in  the  office 
of  the  secretary  of  state. — [Laws  of  1853,  ch.  471,  §  83. 

§  20.  Copies  of  and  extracts  from  any  and  all 
Copies  of  records,  books,  papers,  documents,  files  and 
mayife^ead  manuscripts  in  the  possession  or  custody  of 
in  evidence.  ^^^  regents  of  the  university  as  such,  or  as 
trustees  of  the  state  library,  or  otherwise,  in  their 
official  capacity,  and  duly  authenticated  under  the 
hand  of  the  chancellor  or  secretary,  and  under  the 
common  seal  of  the  said  regents,  as  a  true  copy  of 
such  original  and  of  the  whole  thereof  as  aforesaid, 
may  be  used  and  read  in  evidence  in  all  courts  and 
places  in  this  state,  with  the  same  force  and  effect  as 
the  originals  might  be,  if  produced. — [JOaios  of  1870, 
ch.  60,  §  1. 

§  21.  The  board  of  education  of  every  union  free 

Academical  school  district  shall  severally  have  power  to 

of  un^on^"^  establish  in  the  same  an  academical  depart- 

flchooi.        nient,  whenever  in  their  judgment  the  same 

2* 


24  LAWS    RELATIVE    TO 

18  warranted    by  the  demand  for  such  instruction. 
—[Laws  of  1S6^,  ch.  555,  title  ix,  §  1.3. 

§  22.  Every  academical  department,  established  as 
Under  vis-  aforesaid,  shall  be  under  the  visitation  of  the 

itation  of  c      ^  •  • 

regents,  regents  of  the  university,  and  shall  be  sub- 
ject, in  its  course  of  education  and  matters  pertaining 
thereto  (but  not  in  reference  to  the  buildings  or 
erections  in  which  the  same  is  held),  to  all  the  reg- 
ulations made  in  regard  to  academies  by  the  said 
regents.  In  such  departments  the  qualifications  for 
the  entrance  of  any  pupil  shall  be  as  high  as  those 
established  by  the  said  regents  for  participation  in 
the  literature  fund  of  any  academy  of  the  state  under 
their  supervision. —  [Idemj  §  23. 

§  23.  Whenever  a  union  free  school  shall  be  estab- 
Academy,  lished  under  the  provisions  of  this  title,  and 
merged  there  shall  exist  within  its  district  an  academy, 
Bchooi.  the  board  of  education,  if  thereto  authorized 
by  a  vote  of  the  voters  of  the  district,  may  adopt  such 
academy  as  the  academical  department  of  the  district, 
with  the  consent  of  the  trustees  of  the  academy, 
and  thereupon  the  trustees,  by  a  resolution  to  be  at- 
tested by  the  signatures  of  the  officers  of  the  board, 
and  filed  in  the  office  of  the  clerk  of  the  county, 
shall  declare  their  offices  vacant,  and  thereafter  the 
said  academy  shall  be  the  academical  department  of 
such  union  free  school. — [Idem,  §  24. 

§  24.  In  any  union  free  school  district  established 
under  the  laws  of  this  State,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 


ACADEMICAL    DEPARTMENTS.  25 

the  board  of  education,  upon  the  application  of  fif- 
Union  free  tccn  resident  tax  payers  of  such  district,  to 
trict%ow  call  a  special  meeting  in  the  manner  pre- 
dissoived.  scribed  bylaw,  for  the  purpose  of  determin- 
ing whether  application  shall  be  made  in  the  manner 
hereinafter  provided,  for  the  dissolution  of  such 
union  free  school  district,  and  for  its  reorganization 
as  a  common  school  district  or  districts. — [Laivs  of 
1880,  ch.  210,  §  1. 

§  25.  Whenever,  at  any  such  meeting  called  and 
held  as  aforesaid,  it  shall  be  determined  by  a  major- 
ity vote  of  the  legal  voters  present  and  voting,  to  be 
ascertained  by  taking  and  recording  the  ayes  and  noes, 
not  to  dissolve  such  union  free  school  district,  no 
other  meeting  for  a  similar  purpose  shall  be  held  in 
said  district  within  three  years  from  the  time  the 
first  meeting  was  held,  and  whenever,  at  any  such 
meeting  called  and  held  as  aforesaid,  it  shall  be  de- 
termined by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  legal  voters 
present  and  voting,  to  be  ascertained  by  taking  and 
recording  the  ayes  and  noes,  to  dissolve  such  union 
free  school  district,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board 
of  education  to  present  to  the  clerk  of  the  board  of 
supervisors  a  certified  copy  of  the  call,  notice  and 
proceedings,  and  the  said  clerk  shall  lay  the  same  be- 
fore the  board  of  supervisors  at  their  next  meeting. 
If  the  board  of  supervisors  shall  approve  of  the  pro- 
ceedings of  said  meeting,  the  clerk  shall  certify  the 
same  to  the  board  of  education.  Such  approval  shall 
not  take  effect  until  the  thirtieth  day  of  September 
next  succeeding ;  but  after  that  date  such  district 
4 


26  LAWS  RELATIVE  TO 

shall  cease  to  be  a  union  free  school  district. — \Idetn, 
§3. 

§  'ZQ.  If  there  shall  be  in  such  dissolved  union  free 
school  district  an  academy  which  shall  have  been 
adopted  as  the  academic  department  of  the  union 
free  school,  under  the  provisions  of  title  nine,  chap- 
ter five  hundred  and  fifty-five  of  the  laws  of  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-four,  it  shall,  upon  the  applica- 
Transferof  ^^^^  ^-^  a  majority  of  the  surviving  resident 
academic  former  trustees  or  stockholders,  be  transfer- 
property.  j,gj^  ^^  ^jjg  board  of  education  to  said  former 
trustees  or  stockholders. — [7c?e//i,  §  4. 

§  27.  Any  union  school  in  this  State  duly  organ- 
Priviieges.  ized  according  to  law,  by  complying  with  the 
requirements  of  the  "  Eegents  of  the  University,'*  shall 
be  entitled  to  all  the  benefits  and  privileges  in  the 
academies  in  this  State. — [^Lmvs  of  1862,  ch.  450. 

§  28.  The  founders  and  benefactors  of  any  school 
Lancaste-  established,  or  to  be  established  for  the  in- 
rian  structiou  of  youth,  on  the  system  of  Lancas- 

howincor-ter  or  Bell,  or  any  other  system  of  instruc- 
porated.  tiou  approved  by  the  board  of  regents,  or  as 
many  of  such  founders  as  shall  have  contributed 
more  than  one-half  of  the  property  collected  or  appro- 
priated for  the  use  of  such  school,  may  make  to  'the 
regents  of  the  university,  an  application  in  writing, 
under  their  hands,  requesting  that  such  school  may 
be  incorporated,  nominating  the  first  trustees,  and 
specifying  the  name  by  which  the  corporation  is  to 
be  called.— [1  E.  S.  464,  §  57. 

§  29.  In  case  the  regents  shall  conceive  a  compli- 
idein.  ance  with  such  request  will  be  conducive  to 
the  diffusion  of  useful  knowledge,  they  sliall,  by  an 
instrument  under  their  common  seal,  declare  their 
approbation  of  the  incorporation  of  the  trustees  of 
the  school,  by  the  name  specified  in  such  application. 
—[1  R.  S.  465,  §  58. 


GENERAL  INCORPORATIONS.  27 

§  30.  The  request  in  writing,  and  instrument  of 
Kecord.  approbation,  shall  be  recorded  in  the  office 
of  the  clerk  of  the  county,  in  which  such  school  shall 
be  established. — [^Idem,  §  59. 

§  31.  Immediately  after  recording  the  same,  the 
Title.  property  and  funds  of  such  school  shall  be 
vested  in  the  trustees  so  nominated,  for  the  use  and 
benefit  of  the  school. —  \Idem,  §  60. 

§  32.  Every  school  incorporated  under  the  pro- 
Subject  to  visions  of  this  article  shall  be  subject  to  the 
visitation. control  and  visitation  of  the  regents;  and 
shall  make  such  returns  and  reports,  in  relation  to 
the  state  and  disposition  of  its  property  and  funds, 
the  number  and  ages  of  its  pupils,  and  its  system  of 
instruction  and  discipline,  as  the  regents  shall  from 
time  to  time  require. — [1  E.  S.  466,  §  66. 

§  33.  The  "Act  for  the  incorporation  of  benevo- 
Generai  Icnt^  charitable,  scientific  and  missionary 
corpora"'  P^-HT^scs,"  passcd  April  twelfth,  eighteen 
tion.  hundred  and  forty-eight,  shall  be  deemed  to 
authorize  the  incorporation  of  any  society  for  the 
purpose  of  establishing  and  maintaining  any  educa- 
tional institution. — \^Laivs  o/ 1870,  ch.  51,  §  1. 

§  34.  Any  university  or  college  incorporated  under 
Amount  of  ^^^®  ^^^^  ^^^'  ^^*  ^^nder  this  act,  may  take  and 

endow-      hold  by  gift,  grant,  devise  or  bequest,  prop- 

ments.  ^^,^^  ^^  endowment  not  exceeding  in  value  or 
amount  one  million  of  dollars,  subject  however  to 
the  restriction  upon  devises  and  bequests  contained  in 
an  act  entitled  ^'An  act  relating  to  wills,"  passed 
April  thirteen,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty. — [Idem^ 
§3. 

§  35.  This  act  shall  apply  as  well  to  societies 
Pormer      heretofore  organized  under  the  aforesaid  act, 

organiza-  as  to  thosc  whicli  sliall  be  hereafter  organ- 

t»«««-        izQ&.—[Idem,  §  5. 


28  LAWS   RELATIVE  TO 

•* 

§  36.  Any  five  or  more  persons  of  full  age,  citizens 
of  the  United  States,  a  majority  of  whom  shall  be 
citizens  of  this  State,  who  shall  desire  to  associate 
themselves  for  benevolent,  charitable,  scientific  or 
missionary  purposes,  may  make,  sign  and  acknowl- 
edge before  any  oflficer  authorized  to  take  the  ac- 
knowledgment of  deeds  in  this  State,  and  file  in  the 
office  of  the  Secretary  of  State,  and  also  in  the  office  of 
the  clerk  of  the  county  in  which  the  business  of  such 
society  is  to  be  conducted,  a  certificate  in  writing  in 
which  shall  be  stated  the  name  or  title  by  which  such 
society  shall  be  known  in  law,  the  particular  business 
or  object  of  such  society,  the  number  of  trustees, 
directors  or  managers  to  manage  the  same,  and 
the  names  of  the  trustees,  directors  'or  managers 
of  such  society  for  the  first  year  of  its  existence  ; 
and  any  corporation  organized,  or  which  may  here- 
after be  organized,  under  the  provisions  of  this 
act,  may  from  time  to  time  change  the  title  of  the 
members  of  their  managing  board,  or  increase  or 
reduce  the  number  thereof  to  not  less  than  five, 
on  the  consent  in  writing  of  two-thirds  of  their 
number.  Such  amendment  to  be  filed  with  the  orig- 
inal certificate,  but  such  certificate  or  amendment 
thereof  shall  not  be  filed  unless  by  the  written  con- 
sent and  approbation  of  one  of  the  justices  of  the 
supreme  court  of  the  district  in  which  the  place  of 
business  or  principal  office  of  such  company  or  associ- 
ation shall  be  located,  to  be  indorsed  on  such  certifi- 
cate.— [Laws  of  1848,  ch.  319,  §  1,  as  amended  by 
Laws  of  1879,  ch.  252,  §  1. 


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CHAPTER  III. 

OF    THE    POWERS    AKD   DUTIES   OF   TRUSTEES   OF  COL- 
LEGES  AND   ACADEMIES. 

1.  Of  Colleges. 

Sec.  1.  The  trustees  of  every  college,  to  which  a 
Cor  ora-  charter  shall  be  granted  by  the  state,  shall 
tion-  be  a  corporation.—  [1  R.  S.  460,  §  31. 

§  2.  The  trustees  shall  meet  upon  their  own  ad- 
Meetings,  journment,  and  as  often  as  they  shall  be 
summoned  by  their  chairman,  or  in  his  absence,  by 
the  senior  trustee,  upon  the  request  in  writing  of  any 
other  three  trustees. —  [Idem,  §  32. 

§  3.  Notice  of  the  time  and  place  of  every  such  meet- 
Notices  "^S  ^^^''^^^  ^^  given  in  a  newspaper  printed 
thereof,  [yi  the  county  where  such  college  is  situate, 
at  least  six  days  before  the  meeting;  and  every  trustee 
resident  in  such  county  shall  be  previously  notified 
in  writing,  of  the  time  and  place  of  such  meeting. — 
[Mem,  §  33. 

§  4.  Seniority  among  the  trustees  shall  be  deter- 
Seniority.  mined  according  to  the  order  in  which  they 
are  named  in  the  charter  of  the  college;  and  after  all 
the  first  trustees  sh^U  become  extinct,  according  to 
the  priority  of  their  election. — [Idem,  §  34. 

§  5.  The  trustees  shall  not  exceed  twenty-four,  nor 
Number  be  Icss  than  ten,  in  number,  and  a  majority 
rum!'"""  of  the  whole  number  shall  be  a  quorum  for 
the  transaction  of  business. — [Idem,  §  35. 


♦W  LAWS    RELATIVE   TO 

§  6.  The  trustees  of  every  such  college,  besides  the 
Powers  of  general  powers  and  privileges  of  a  corpora- 
trustees.   i[qy\,  shall  have  power : 

1 .  To  elect  by  ballot  their  chairman  annually : 

2.  Upon  the  death,  removal  out  of  this  state,  or 
other  vacancy  in  the  office  of  any  trustee,  to  elect 
another  in  his  place  by  a  majority  of  the  votes  of  the 
trustees  present : 

3.  To  declare  vacant  the  seat  of  any  trustee,  who 
shall  absent  himself,  from  five  successive  meetings  of 
the  board  : 

4.  To  take  and  hold,  by  gift,  grant  or  devise,  any 
real  or  personal  property,  the  yearly  income  or  reve- 
nue of  which,  shall  not  exceed  the  value  of  twenty-five 
thousand  dollars : 

5.  To  sell,  mortgage,  let  and  otherwise  use  and 
dispose  of  such  property,  in  such  manner,  as  they  shall 
deem  most  conducive  to  the  interest  of  the  college: 

6.  To  direct  and  prescribe  the  course  of  study  and 
discipline,  to  be  observed  in  the  college : 

7.  To  appoint  a  president  of  the  college,  who  shall 
hold  his  office  during  good  behavior : 

8.  To  appoint  such  professors,  trustees  and  other 
officers,  as  they  shall  deem  necessary,  who,  unless 
employed  under  a  special  contract,  shall  hold  their 
offices  during  the  pleasure  of  the  trustees : 

9.  To  remove  or  suspend  from  office  the  president 
and  every  professor,  tutor,  or  other  officer  employed 
under  a  special  contract,  upon  a  complaint  in  writing 
by  any  member  of  the  board  of  trustees,  stating  the 


TRUSTEES   OF    ACADEMIES.  31 

misbehavior  in  office,  incapacity  or  immoral  conduct, 
of  the  person  sought  to  be  removed,  and  upon  exami- 
nation and  due  proof  of  the  truth  of  such  complaint; 
and  to  appoint  any  other  person  in  place  of  the  presi- 
dent or  other  officer,  thus  removed  or  suspended: 

10.  To  grant  such  literary  honors  as  are  usually 
granted  by  any  university,  college,  or  seminary  of 
learning  in  the  United  States ;  and  in  testiniony 
thereof  to  give  suitable  diplomas,  under  their  seal 
and  the  signature  of  such  officers  of  the  college,  as 
they  shall  deem  expedient : 

11.  To  ascertain  and  fix  the  salaries  of  the  presi- 
dent, professors  and  other  officers  of  the  college: 

12.  To  make  all  ordinances  and  by-Taws  necessary 
and  proper  to  carry  into  effect  the  preceding  powers. 

—  [Idem,  §  36. 

§  7.  Every  diploma  granted  by  such  trustees,  shall 
Effect  of     entitle  the  possessor  to  all  the  immunities 
diplomas,  which  by  usage  or  statute  are  allowed  to  pos- 
sessors of  similar  diplomas  granted  by  any  university, 
college  or  seminary  of  learning  in  the  United  States. 

—  [I  R.  S.  461,  §37. 

§  7J.  The  degree  of  doctor  of  medicin-e  conferred 
Location  by  any  college  in  this  State,  shall  not  be  a 
limited,  license  to  practice  physic  or  surgery;  nor 
shall  any  college  have,  or  institute,  a  medical  faculty, 
to  teach  the  science  of  medicine,  in  any  other  place 
than  where  the  charter  locates  the  college. — [1  R.  S. 
455,  §  21. 

2.    Of  Academies. 

§  8.  The  trustees  of  every  such  academy  shall  be  a 
Corpora-     Corporation,  by  the  name  expressed  in  the 
tion.         instrument  of  approbation;  they  shall  not  be 
more  than  twenty-four,  nor  less  than  twelve,  in  num- 
ber ;  and  seven  trustees  of  any  academy  shall   be  a 


33  LAWS    RELATIVE    TO 

quorum  for  the  transaction  of  business. — [1  K.S.  462, 
I  41 ;  Laws  of  1835,  ch.  34,  §  3. 

§  9.  Such  trustees,  besides  the  general  powers  and 
Power?  of  pi'ivileges  of  a  corporation,  shall  have  au- 

trustees.    tho^ty  . 

1.  To  adjourn  from  time  to  time,  as  they  may  deem 
expedient : 

2.  To  elect  by  ballot  their  president,  who  shall 
hold  his  office  for  one  year,  and  until  another  be 
chosen  in  his  place  : 

3.  Upon  the  death,  resignation,  refusal  to  act,  re- 
moval out  of  this  state,  or  other  vacancy  in  the  office 
of  any  trustee,  to  elect  another  in  his  place,  by  a  ma- 
jority of  the  votes  of  the  trustees  present : 

4.  To  take  and  hold  by  gift,  grant  or  devise,  any 
real  or  personal  property,  the  clear  yearly  income  or 
revenue  of  which  shall  not  exceed  the  value  of  four 
thousand  dollars : 

5.  To  sell,  mortgage,  let,  or  otherwise  use  and  dis- 
pose of,  such  property,  for  the  benefit  of  the  academy  : 

6.  To  direct  and  prescribe  the  course  of  discipline 
and  study  in  the  academy : 

v.  To  appoint  a  treasurer,  clerk,  principal,  masters^ 
tutors,  and  other  necessary  officers  of  the  academy ; 
who  unless  employed  under  a  special  contract,  shall 
hold  their  offices  during  the  pleasure  of  the  trustees: 

8.  To  ascertain  and  fix  the  salaries  of  all  the  offi- 
cers of  the  academy : 

9.  To  remove  or  suspend  from  office  any  officer 
employed  under  a  special  contract,  upon  a  complaint 
in  writing  by  a  trustee,  of  the  misbehavior  in  office. 


TRUSTEES    OF    ACADEMIES.  35 

incapacity  or  immoral  conduct,  of  such  officer,  and 
upon  examination  and  due  proof  of  the  truth  of  such 
complaint,  and  to  appoint  another  person  in  the 
place  of  the  officer  so  removed  or  suspended : 

10.  To  make  all  ordinances  and  by-laws  necessary 
and  proper  to  carry  into  effect  the  preceding  powers. 
—  [1  R.  S.  462,  §  42. 

§  10.  The  trustees  shall  meet  upon  their  own  ad- 
Meetings,  journment  and  as  often  as  they  shall  be 
summoned  by  their  president,  or  the  senior  trustee 
actually  exercising  his  office,  and  residing  within  three 
miles  of  such  academy,  upon  the  request  in  writing 
of  any  other  three  trustees. —  [1  R.  S.  463,  §  43. 

§  11.  Every  meeting  so  requested,  shall  be  held  at 

Time  and     ^^^^^^  ^^"^®  ^^^  placc,  as  the  president  or  sen- 

piace.        {qy  trustee  shall  appoint,  not  less  than  five, 

nor  more  than   twelve,  days  from  the  time  of    the 

request. — [Idem,  §  44. 

§  12.  Previous  notice  in  writing  of  every  such 
„  ,.  meetino^  shall  be  affixed  on  the  door  of   the 

Notice  o 

thereof,  academy,  within  two  days  after  its  appoint- 
ment; and  at  every  meeting,  adjourned  or  special,  the 
president,  or  senior  trustee  present,  shall  preside. — 

[Id 6771,  §  45. 

§  13.  The  seniority  of  the  trustees  shall  always  be 
Seniority,  determined  according  to  the  order  of  their 
nomination  in  the  written  application  to  the  regents; 
and  after  all  the  first  trustees  shall  become  extinct, 
according  to  the  priority  of  their  election. —  [Idem, 
§46. 

5 


34  LAWS   RELATIVE  TO 

§  14.  If  a  trustee  shall  refuse  or  neglect  to  attend 
Non-attend- any  two  successive  legal  meetings  of  the 

ance,  effect  ,         i.  j?*.        i        •        r  n  i.* 

of.  trustees,  after  having  been  personally  noti- 

fied to  attend,  and  if  no  satisfactory  cause  of  his  non-at- 
tendance be  shown,  the  trustees  may  declare  his  oflBce 
vacant. —  [Idem,  §  47. 

§  15.  If  any  trustee  of  any  academy  shall,  for  one 
Idem.  year,  refuse  or  neglect  to  attend  the  legal 
meetings  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  which  he  is  a 
member,  such  non-attendance  shall  be  deemed  a  resig- 
nation of  the  office  of  such  trustee. —  [Laws  of  1^'^Oy 
ch.  123,  §  2. 

§  16.  Where  the  number  of  trustees  of  any  acad- 
Niimber,  cmy  shall  exceed  twelve, the  trustees  thereof, 
reduced,  at  their  annual  meeting,  may  reduce  the 
number  of  the  original  board  of  trustees  to  any  num- 
ber, not  less  than  twelve,  by  abolishing  the  offices  of 
those,  who  may  omit  to  attend  such  meeting,  and  shall 
have  omitted  to  attend  two  other  legal  meetings  after 
notice.—  [1  R.  S.  463,  §  48. 

§  17.  Where  the  number  of  trustees  of  any  acad- 
Faiiureto  emy  shall  exceed  twelve,  and  a  vacancy  shall 
effect  of.  'happen  in  the  office  of  any  such  trustees,  and 
the  vacancy  shall  not  be  filled  by  the  election  of 
another  trustee  within  six  months  after  the  happen- 
ing of  such  vacancy,  the  office  of  the  trustee  so 
becoming  vacant  shall  be  abolished. —  [Latvs  of  1835, 
ch.  123,  §  3. 

§  18.  The  trustees  of  any  academy  possessing  a 
capital  stock  pursuant  to  the  act  chapter  five  bun- 


ETC.  35 

stock  cor-  dred  and  forty-four  of  the  laws  of  eighteen 
special  '  hundred  and  fifty-one,  may  by  their  by-laws- 

DdWGrs  of  ** 

trustees,  prescribe  the  mode  and  manner  of  electing 
trustees  of  the  said  academy,  and  may  make  all  neces- 
sary rules  and  regulations  relative  to  such  election  ; 
and  the  said  trustees  may,  if  they  so  determine,  be 
divided  into  three  classes  as  nearly  equal  as  may  be,^ 
who  shall  serve  respectively  one,  two  and  three  years, 
such  terms  of  service  to  be  determined  by  drawing 
tlierefor  under  the  direction  of  the  said  trustees ;  and 
the  trustees  thereafter  elected  shall  serve  tliree  years. 
The  trustees  may  fill  all  vacancies  occurring  in  their 
number  by  death,  resignation,  removal  from  the  state, 
or  otherwise ;  and  any  election  of  trustees  by  any 
academy,  under  said  law,  heretofore  held,  is  hereby 
afiirmed  and  made  valid,  provided,  that  this  act  shall 
not  aflfect  any  action  heretofore  brought  arising  out 
of  any  such  election. — \Zaws  of  1853,  ch.  184,  §  3. 

3.    Of  Lancasterian  and  Select  Schools. 
§  19.  The  trustees  of  such  school  shall  be  a  corpo- 
Corpora-     I'^tion,  by  the  name  expressed  in  the  instru- 
^^«°-         ment  of  approbation.— [1  R.  S.  465,  §  61. 

§  20.  The  trustees  of  every  such  school,  (besides  the 
Powers  of  general  powers  and  privileges  of  a  corpora- 
trustees.   i\qy^^  shall  have  authority, 

1.  To  elect,  by  ballot,  their  president,  treasurer  and 
clerk,  annually: 

2.  Upon  the  death,  resignation,  refusal  to  act,  re- 
moval out  of  the  state,  or  other  vacancy  in  the  oflice 
of  any  trustee,  to  elect  another  in  his  place : 


36  LAWS    RELATIVE    TO 

3.  To  appoint  a  master,  assistants  and  other  neces- 
sary officers  of  the  school : 

4.  To  remove  or  suspend  any  of  them  at  pleasure, 
and  to  fix  their  respective  salaries  or  compensation : 

5.  To  appoint  the  times  and  places  of  their  own 
regular  meetings,  and  to  adjourn  from  time  to 
time : 

6.  To  take  and  hold  any  real  or  personal  property, 
the  clear  yearly  income  or  revenue  of  which,  shall  not 
exceed  the  value  of  four  thousand  dollars : 

7.  To  sell,  mortgage,  let,  afld  otherwise  use  and 
dispose  of,  such  property  for  the  benefit  of  the 
school : 

8.  To  make  all  ordinances  and  by-laws,  necessary 
and  proper,  to  carry  into  effect  the  preceding  powers. 
—  [Idein,  g  62. 

§  21.  If  any  trustee  shall  refuse  or  neglect  to  at- 

Non-atten-  ^^^^  ^he  Stated  meetings  of  the  trustees,  for 

dance.      £'^^^^.  mgetiugg  successively,  the  office  of  such 

trustee  may  be  declared  vacant  by  the  trustees. — [1 

R.  S.  466,  §  63. 

§  22.  The  trustees  of  one  or  more  common-school- 
now  made  districts  in  any  city,  town  or  villaore  of  this 

a  district  •'•''.  o 

echooi.  state,  within  which  any  incorporated  Lancas- 
terian,  or  other  select  school  is,  or  shall  be  established, 
with  the  consent  of  a  majority  of  the  taxable  inhabit- 
ants of  such  district  or  districts,  expressed  at  a  meet- 
ing called  for  that  purpose,  may  agree  with  the 
trustees  of  such  incorporated  school,  to  make  the 
same  a  district  school. —  [Idem,  g  64. 


QUALIFICATIONS    OF   OFFICERS,   ETC.  37 

§  23.  Such  incorporated  school  shall,  during  the 
Idem.  continuance  of   such  agreement,  become  a 

district  school,  and  be  entitled  to  all  the  benefits  and 
privileges,  and  subject  to  all  the  regulations  of  other 
district  schools. —  [Ide7n,  §  65. 

§  24.  Every  school  incorporated  under  the  pro- 
Siibject  to  visions  of  this  article  shall  be  subject  to  the 
of  regents  coutrol  and  visitation  of  the  regents;  and 
shall  make  such  returns  and  reports,  in  relation  to  the 
state  and  disposition  of  its  property  and  funds,  the 
number  and  ages  of  its  pupils,  and  its  system  of 
instruction  and  discipline,  as  the  regents  shall  from 
time  to  time  require. —  [Idem,  §  66. 

4.   General  Provisions  Applicable  to    Colleges  and 
Academie-'i. 

§  25.  No   religious   qualification   or   test   shall  be 

Noreii  -      I'equired  from  any  trustee,  president,  prin- 

ioustest.    cipal,  or  other  officer  of   any  incorporated 

college  or  academy,  or  as  a  condition  for  admission 

to  any  privilege  in  the  same. —  [1  R.  S.  463,  §  49. 

§  26.  No  professor  or  tutor  of  any  incorporated 
No  acad.  academy  shall  be  a  trustee  of  such  academy. 
fuTJrTo    —[1  R.  S.  464,  §  50;   Laws   of  1876,  ch. 

be^atras.i3^^gl, 

§  27.  No  president,  professor  or  tutor  of  any  in- 
when  not  corporated  college,  or  principal  of  any  in- 
to vote,  corporated  academy,  who  shall  be  a  trustee, 
shall  have  a  vote  in  any  case  relating  to  his  own 
salary  or  emoluments. —  [1  R.  S.  464,  §  51;  Laws  of 
1876,  ch.  132,  §  2. 


38  LAWS  KELATIVE  TO 


CHAPTER  IV. 

ANNUAL  EEPORTS  OF  COLLEGES  AND  ACADEMIES  AND 
THE  DISTRIBUTION  OF  THE  1*UBLIC  FUNDS. 

Sec.  1.  Every  college  and  academy  that  shall  become 
Reports  to  ^ubjcct  to  the  yisitation  of  the  regents,  shall 
regents.  make  such  returns  and  reports  to  the  regents, 
in  relation  to  the  state  and  disposition  of  its  j^roperty 
and  funds,  the  number  and  ages  of  its  pupils,  and  its 
system  of  instruction  and  discipline,  as  tlie  regents 
^hall  from  time  to  time  require. — [1  R.  S.  464,  §  55. 

§  2.  Every  college  and  academy,  subject  to  the  visi- 
idem.  tation  of  the  regents  of  the  university,  shall 

make  up  its  annual  report  and  transmit  tlie  same  to 
the  secretary  of  the  regents  on  or  before  the  first  day 
of  October,  in  each  year. —  [Laws  of  1870,  ch.  289. 

§  o.  The  regents  shall  prescribe  the  forms  of  all  re- 
Regents  to  turns,  which  they  shall  require  from  colleges 
Forms"  ^  and  other  seminaries  of  learning,  subject  to 
their  visitation,  and  may  direct  such  forms  and  such 
instructions,  as  from  time  to  time,  shall  be  given  by 
them  as  visitors,  to  be  printed  by  the  state  printer. — 
[1  R.  S.  459,  §  29. 

§  4.  Every  academy  or  institution  of  learning  sub- 
Academic  J^^^  ^^  ^^^^  visitation  of  tlie  regents,  is  hereby 
year.  required,  as  early  as  possible  after  the  passage 

of  this  act,  at  a  legal  meeting  of  the  trustees,  to  declare 
on  its  minutes  the  termination  of  its  academic  year, 
and  which,  in  all  cases,  shall  be  some  period  between 


ANNUAL   REPORTS    OF   COLLEGES,  ETC.  39 

the  twentieth  day  of  June  and  the  fifteenth  day  of 
September,  in  each  year. —  [Laws  of  1856,  ch.  54. 

§  5.  Every  academy  shall  make  up  its  annual  re- 
Report,        port  for  said  academic  year,  and  shall  trans- 

when  to  be        ,       -  ,        i  '      , 

transmited.  mit  tlic  Same  to  the  regents  on  or  before  the 
first  day  of  October  in  each  year,  stating  in  the  same 
the  termination  of  their  academic  year. —  [Laivs  of 
1855,  ch.  50,  §  2;  1879,  ch.  289. 

§  6.  Every  such  return  shall  be  attested  by  the  oath 
Contents      ^'ithcrof  the  principal  instructor  of  the  sem- 

of  reports,  inary  by  which  it  shall  be  made,  or  of  one 
of  the  trustees  thereof,  and  shall  contain: 

1.  The  names  and  ages  of  all  the  pupils  instructed 
in  such  seminary,  during  the  preceding  year,  and  the 
time  that  each  was  so  instructed. 

2.  A  particular  statement  of  the  studies  pursued  by 
each  pupil,  at  the  commencement  of  his  instruction, 
and  of  his  subsequent  studies,  until  the  date  of  the 
report,  together  with  the  books  the  student  shall  have 
studied  in  whole  or  in  part,  and  if  in  part,  what  portion. 

3.  An  account  or  estimate  of  the  cost  or  A'alue  of 
the  library,  philosophical  and  chemical  apparatus, 
and  mathematical  and  other  scientific  instruments' 
belonging  to  the  seminary. 

4.  The  names  of  the  instructors  employed  in  the 
seminary,  and  the  compensation  paid  to  each. 

5.  An  account  of  the  funds,  income,  debts  and  in- 
cumbrances of  the  seminary,  and  of  the  application 
therein,  of  the  moneys  last  received  from  the  regents. 
—  [1  K.  S.  459,  §  27. 


40  LAWS    RELATIVE  TO 

§  7.  There  sliall  be  paid  annually  by  the  treasurer, 
Apportion-  OR    tlic    Warrant  of    the    comptroller,    out 

ment  of  ».,  ^.^-  it, 

literature  01  the  reveuues  derived  from  the  literature 
fund,  to  the  several  academies  under  the 
supervision  of  tlie  regents  of  the  university,  the  sum 
of  twelve  thousand  dollars,  and  the  further  sum  of 
twenty-eight  thousand  dollars  from  the  income  of  the 
United  States  deposit  fund,  being  in  all  forty  thou- 
sand dollars,  according  to  an  apportionment  to  be 
made  by  the  regents  among  tlie  said  academies,  in 
proportion  to  the  number  of  pupils  in  each  who  shall 
have  pursued  the  requisite  studies  to  enable  them  to 
-share  in  said  distribution. — [^Latvs  of  1851,  ch.  536, 

§1- 

§  8.  Every  such  distribution  shall  be  made  in  pro- 
How  dis-  portion  to  the  number  of  pupils  in  each 
seminary,  who,  for  four  months  during  the 
preceding  year,  shall  have  j^ursued  therein  classical 
studies,  or  the  higher  branches  of  English  education, 
or  both.  Provided  that  in  making  such  distribution 
the  board  of  rege^nts  shall  be  authorized  to  apportion 

41  certain  part  of  said  moneys,  not  to  exceed  the  one- 
fourth  part  thereof,  in  proportion  to  the  number  of 
pupils  in  the  several  academics  and  academic  de- 
partments of  union  schools  who  during  the  preced- 
ing year  have  passed  the  advanced  examinations  pro- 
vided for  in  section  six  of  chapter  four  hundred  and 
twenty-five  of  the  laws  of  eighteen  hundred  and  sev- 
enty-seven, entitled  *'An  act  in  regard  to  the  instruc- 
tion of  common  school  teachers  in  academies  and 
union  schools  and  to  the  establishing  of  examina- 


ANi^UAL  REPORTS  OF  ACADEMIES.  41 

tions  by  the  regents  of  the  university  as  to  attain- 
ments in  learning." — [1  E.  S.,  458,  §  24  ;  Laius  of 
1880,  ch.  514,  §  1. 

§  9.  No  pupil  in  any  such  seminary,  shall  be  deemed 
studies.  to  liave  pursued  classical  studies,  unless  he 
shall  have  advanced  at  least,  so  far  as  to  have  read  in 
Latin,  the  first  book  of  ^neid  ;  nor  to  have  pursued 
the  higher  branches  of  English  education,  unless  he 
shall  have  advanced  beyond  such  knowledge  of  arith- 
metic (including  vulgar  and  decimal  fractions),  and 
of  English  grammar  and  geography,  as  is  usually 
obtained  in  common  schools. — [1  R.  S.  459,  §  ::^5. 

§  10.  No  academy  shall  hereafter  be  allowed  to  par- 
Conditions.  ticipatc  iu  the  annual  distribution  of  the 
literature  fund,  until  the  regents  of  the  university 
shall  be  satisfied  that  a  j^roper  building-  has  been 
erected  and  finished  to  furnish  suitable  and  necessary 
accommodation  for  such  school,and  that  such  academy 
is  furnished  with  a  suitable  library  and  philosophical 
apparatus,  and  that  a  proper  perceptor  has  been  and 
is  employed  for  the  instruction  of  the  pupils  at  such 
academy  ;  and  further,  that  the  regents  shall,  on  be- 
ing satisfied  that  such  building,  library  and  apparatus 
are  sufficient  for  the  purposes  intended,  and  that  the 
whole  is  of  the  value  at  least  of  twenty-five  hundred 
dollars,  permit  such  academy  or  school  to  place  itself 
under  the  visitation  of  the  regents,  and  thereafter  to 
share  in  the  distribution  of  the  moneys  above  men- 
tioned, or  any  other  of  the  literature  fund  in  the 
manner  now  provided  by  law.  The  regents  of  the 
university  may  also  admit  to  such  distribution,  and 
6 


42  LAWS  RELATIVE  TO 

to  any  other  of  the  literature  fund,  any  incorporated 

incorpora-  school,  or  school  founded  and  governed  by 

may  be^d^^^y  literary  corporation  other  than  theologi- 

distrtbu-^    cal  or  mcdical,  in  which  the  usual  academic 

t'on.         studies  are  pursued,  and  which  shall  have 

been  in  like  manner  subjected  to  their  visitation,  and 

would  in  all  other  respects,  were  it  incorporated  as  an 

academy,  be  entitled  to  such  distribution. — [Latus  of 

1838,  ch.  237,  §  8. 

§  11.   It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  regents  of  the  uni- 
Certain  aca-versity  to  require  of  every  academy  receiv- 
hfsTruct^  ing  a  distributive  share  of    public   money 
schoX"    under  the  preceding  section  equal  to  seven 
teachers,    i^m^di-gd  dollars  per  annum  to  establish  and 
maintain  in  such  academy  a  department  for  the  in- 
struction   of    common    school   teachers,    under  the 
direction  of  the  said   regents,  as  a   condition   of  re- 
ceiving the  distributive  share  of  every  such  academy.* 
— [Idem,  §  9. 

§  12.  The  regents  of  the  university  shall  annually 
Schedule  of  deliver  to  the  comptroller  a  schedule  of  the 
tote  deiiv"  distribution  of  the  income  of  the  said  litera- 
comptroV^^  ture  fund,  designating  the  several  institu- 
^^^'  tions  entitled  to  a  participation,  and  the 
amount  awarded  to  each;  which  schedule  shall  be 
delivered  immediately  after  each  annual  distribution, 
and  shall  be  authenticated  by  the  signature  of  the 
chancellor  and  secretary  of  the  said  regents  of  the 
university,  and  their  corporate  seal. — [Latos  of  1832, 
ch.  8,  §  3. 

See,  also,  post,  ch .  V,  8  8. 


ANNUAL  REPORTS  OF  ACADEMIES.  43 

§  13.  The  comptroller  shall  draw  his  warrant  on 
Warrant,  the  treasurer  in  favor  of  each  institution, 
for  the  sum  so  awarded  to  it,  and  shall  direct  the 
manner  in  which  the  same  shall  be  receipted  and 
drawn  from  the  treasury. — [Idem,  §  4. 

§  14.  All  moneys  received  by  any  academy  or  other 
Moneys,  institution,  in  the  annual  distribution  of 
plied.  the  literature  and  United  States  deposit 
funds,  shall  be  applied  exclusively,  by  the  trustees  of 
such  academy  or  institution,  towards  paying  the  sal- 
aries of  teachers. — [Laws  of  1859,  ch.  426,  §  1. 

§15.  There  shall  be  paid  by  the  treasurer,  on  the 
Appropria-  Warrant  of  the  comptroller,  out  of  the  in- 
books,  etc.  come  of  the  literature  fund,  to  the  regents 
of  the  university,  three  thousand  dollars  annually,  to 
be  assigned  by  them  to  such  academies,  subject  to 
their  visitation,  for  the  purchase  of  text  books,  maps, 
and  globes,  or  philosophical  or  chemical  apparatus,  as 
may  apply  for  a  part  of  the  money  for  that  purpose, 
on  the  terms  prescribed'  in  the  second  section  of 
chapter  one  hundred  and  forty  of  the  laws  of  one 
thousand  eight  hundred  and  thirty-four. — [Laws  of 
1851,  ch.  536,  §  3. 

§  16.  Such  sum  to  any  academy  shall  not  exceed 
Amount,  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  in  any  one 
year,  and  no  part  shall  be  actually  paid  over,  unless 
the  trustees  of  the  academy  to  which  it  is  to  be  ap- 
propriated shall  raise  and  apply  an  equal  sum  of 
monev  to  the  same  object. — [Laius  of  1834,  ch.  140, 
§2-    " 


44  LAWS  KELATIVE  TO 

§  17.  The  regents  of  the  university  are  hereby  au- 
Powerof  thorized  and  empowered  to  give  such  relief 
to|mnt  to  academies  in  relation  to  the  distribution  of 
the  public  funds  as  has  hitherto  been  ren- 
dered by  the  legislature,  whenever  in  their  judgment 
such  relief  is  equitable  and  just,  or  rendered  neces- 
sary by  error  in  their  reports  or  by  error  in  distribu- 
tion of  said  funds. — [Laws  of  1857,  ch.  527,  §  4. 

§  18.  The  regents  sliall  annually,  within  ten  days 
Annual       after  the   openinsr  of  the   session    in   each 

FGDOrt  of 

regents,  year,  report  to  the  legislature  an  abstract  of 
all  the  returns  made  to  them,  embracing  a  general 
view  of  the  particulars  contained  therein,  and  shall 
also  state  in  their  report,  the  distribution  made  by 
them,  during  the  preceding  year,  of  the  income  of  the 
literature  fund,  the  names  of  the  seminaries  sharing 
in  such  distribution,  and  the  amount  received  by 
each.*— [1  R.  S.  459,  §  28  ;  Lawsof  1855, ch.  50,  §  3. 
■ % 

*  See,  also,  ante,  ch.  I,  §  18. 


INSTEUCTIOK  OF  TEACHERS.  45 


CHAPTER  V. 

STATE   NORMAL  SCHOOL,   A:N"D   INSTRUCTION"   OF   COM- 
MON SCHOOL  TEACHERS  IN  ACADEMIES. 

Sec.  1.  The  said  school  (State  Normal  School,  at  Al- 
Supervision  banv)  shall  be  under  the  supervision,  man- 

and  man-  "^ '  ^  ^ 

agement.  agement  and  government  of  the  superintend- 
ent of  public  instruction  and  the  rcgen  ts  of  tlie  univers- 
ity. The  said  superintendent  and  regents  shall  from 
time  to  time,  make  all  needful  rules  and  regulations,  to 
fix  the  number  and  compensation  of  teachers  and  others 
to  be  employed  therein;  to  prescribe  the  preliminary 
examination,  and  the  terms  and  conditions  on  which 
pupils  shall  be  received  and  instructed  therein  ;  the 
number  of  pupils  from  the  respective  counties,  con- 
forming as  nearly  as  may  be  to  the  ratio  of  popula- 
tion, and  to  provide  in  all  things  for  the  good  govern- 
ment and  management  of  the  said  school.  They 
shall  a^opoint  a  board  consisting  of  five  persons,  of 
whom  the  said  superintendent  shall  be  one,  who 
Executive     shall  Constitute  an  executive  committee  for 

committee.  ^^^^  ^^^^^  management  and  government  of 

said  school,  under  the  rules  and  regulations  pre- 
scribed as  aforesaid,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  from 
time  to  time  to  make  full  and  detailed  reports  to  the 
said  superintendent  and  regents,  and  among  other 
things  to  recommend  the  rules  and  regulations  which 
they  deem  necessary  and  proper  for  the  said  school. 
—  {Laios  of  1848,  ch.  318,  §  3  ;  1854,  ch.  97,  §  1. 


46  LAWS   RELATIVE  TO 

§  3.  Every  teacher  shall  be  deemed  a  qualified  teacher 
Diploma.  who  shall  have  in  possession  a  diploma  from  the 
State  Normal  School.— [Laws  of  1849,  §  11. 

§  3.  The    superintendent    and    regents     shall    annually 
Annual  re-     transmit  to  the  legislature  a  full  account  of  their 
port.  proceedings  and  of  the  expenditures  of  money 

under  this  act,  together  with  a  detailed  report  of  the  pro- 
gress, condition  and  prospects  of  the  school. — [Laws  of 
1848,  ch.  318,  §  4. 

§  4.  The  treasurer  shall  pay  yearly,  on  the  warrant  of  the 

Appropria-     comptroller,  out  of  the  income  of  the  United 

tlon  for  in-  States  deposit  fund  not  otiierwise  appropriated, 

oomm'on  °^  *^^  ®""^  ^^  thirty  thousand  dollars  for  the  in- 

Bchool  struction  in  academies  and  union  schools  in  the 

teachers.      science  and  practice  of  common  school  teaching, 

under   a   course  to   be   prescribed   by   the   regents   of  the 

university,  and  a  sum  not  exceeding  three  thousand  dollars, 

portion  of  said  thhtythojsmd  dollars,  for  instruction   in 

such   academies  in  pliysiology  and  the  laws  of  health,  and 

such  other  special  subjects  as  the  regents  of  the  university 

shall  deem  necessary  to  be  taught  on  a  uniform  system  in 

all  tlie  academies  so  selected  as  aforesaid,  by  a  teacher  or 

teachers  to  be  appointed  by  said  regents ;  the  same  to  be 

paid  to  such  teacher  or  teachers  on  the  certificate  of  the  said 

regents  that  the  said  uniform  course  of  instruction  has  been 

given  by  such  teacher  or  teachers  under  their  directions  in 

conformity  to  the  provisions  of  this  act. — [Laws  of  1855,  ch. 

410,  §  1;  18G4,  ch.  556;  1877,  ch.  425,  §  1. 

§  5.  The  said  regents  shall  designate  the  academies  and 
Appoint-        union  schools  in  which  the  instruction  shall  be 
ments.  given,  distributing  them  among  the  counties  of 

the  State  as  nearly  as  well  may  be,  having  reference  to  the 
number  of  school  districts  in  each,  to  location  and  to  the 
character  of  the  institutions  selected. — [Laws  of  1877,  ch. 
425,  §  2. 

§  G.  Every  academy  and  union  school  so  designated 
Instruction,  shall  instruct  a  class  of  not  less  than  ten 
nor  more  than  twenty-five  scholars,  and  every  scholar 
admitted  to  such  class  shall  continue  under  instruc- 
tion not  less  than  ten  weeks,  all  of  which  shall  be  in 
one     school     term.       The     regents     shall    prescribe     the 


IKSTRUCTION  OF  TEACHERS.  47 

conditions  of  admission  to  tlio  classes,  the  course  of 
instruction,  and  the  rules  and  regulations  under  which 
said  instruction  shall  be  given,  and  shall,  in  their  dis- 
cretion, determine  the  number  of  classes  which  may  be 
formed  in  any  one  year  in  any  academy  or  union  school, 
and  the  length  of  time  exceeding  ten  weeks  during 
which  such  instruction  may  be  given,  all  of  which 
shall  be  in  the  same  school  term.  —  [Idem,  §  3. 

§  7.  Instruction  shall  be  free  to  all  scholars  ad- 
Free  tuition,  mitted  to  such  classes,  and  who  have  con- 
tinued in  them  the  length  of  time  required  by  the 
third  section  of  this  act.  —  Idem,  §  4. 

§  8.  The  trustees  of  all  academies  and  union 
schools  in  which  such  instruction  shall  be 

Compensa- 
tion,        given  shall  be  paid  from  the  appropriation 

made  by  the  first  section  of  this  act  at  the  rate  of 
one  dollar  for  each  week's  instruction  of  each  scholar, 
on  the  certificate  of  the  regents  of  the  university  to 
be  furnished  to  the  comptroller.  —  Idem,  §  5. 

§  9.  The  comptroller  shall  not  draw  his  warrant 
Certificate  for  any  amount  as  above  provided,  until  the 
troiier.  trustees  of  such  academies  shall  have  fur- 
nished to  the  regents  of  the  university  satisfactory 
evidence  that  the  course  prescribed,  as  aforesaid,  has 
been  thoroughly  pursued  by  a  class  previously  desig- 
nated, and  instructed  as  common  school  teachers, 
and  who  the  said  trustees  believe  intend  in  good 
faith  to  follow  the  said  occupation;  and  said  trustees 
shall  have  obtained  a  certificate  thereof,  and  pi'e- 
sented  the  same  to  the  comptroller.  —  [Laivs  of  1855, 
ch.  410,  §  2. 


48  LAWS   RELATIVE  TO 


CHAPTER  VL 

THE  STATE    LIBRARY. 

Sec.  1.  The  regents  of  the  university  of  the  state 
Trustees,  of  New  York,  are  hereby  constituted  and 
shall  continue  tlie  trustees  of  the  state  library. — [Laws 
of  1844,  ch.  255,  §  1. 

§  2.  The  trustees  hereby  appointed,  shall  have  power, 
Librarians,  from  time  to  time,  to  appoint  a  librarian  to 
pointed,  superintend  and  take  care  of  the  said  library; 
and  to  prescribe  such  rules  and  regulations  for  the 
government  of  the  library,  as  they  shall  think  proper; 
and  to  remove  the  librarian  at  any  time  when  they 
shall  deem  it  expedient;  but  for  the  purpose  of  re- 
pioving  or  appointing  a  librarian,  twelve  of  the  said 
trustees  shall  be  required  to  form  a  quorum. — [Idem, 

§3. 

§  3.  The  assistant  librarian,  and  messenger  shall  be 
''ifbrarian      appointed  by  the  trustees  of  the  library. — 
andmes"      \ Laws  of  1848,  cli.  262,  §  2. 

senger.  l  j  '  '  o 

§  4.  The  state  library  shall  be  kept  open,  every  day 

in  the  year,  Sundays  excepted,  during  such 

be  open,     hours  iu  oacli  day  as  the   trustees  of   the 

said  library  may  direct.* — [Laivs  of  1844,  ch.  255, 

%j- 

*By  a  concurrent  resolution  of  the  senate  and  assembly,  passed  April 
9, 1856,  the  trustees  of  the  state  library  are  authorized  to  close  the  said 


STATE     LIBRARY.  49 

§  5.  The  librarian  shall  be  constant- in  his  personal 
Duties  of  attendance  npon  the  library,  during  the 
librarian,  hours  it  shall  be  directed  to  be  kept  open, 
and  shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  may  be  imposed 
by  law  or  by  the  rules  and  regulations  which  may  be 
prescribed  by  the  said  trustees. —  [Idem,  §  6. 

§  G.   The  acting  trustees  will  from  time  to   time, 

Trustees  to  give  directions  to  the  librarian  in  relation  to 

uons/^^^'  the  proper  and  safe-keeping  of   tlie  books, 

maps,   charts  and  other  property  belonging  to  the 

said  library,   and  may  by  Avay  of    amercement  for 

Amerce-       Gvcry  violation  or  neglect  of  duty,  suspend 

negiect^^     or  deduct  from  his  salary  or  emolument,  any 

of  duty,      part  thereof  not  exceeding  half  of  it  in  any 

one  yefiY.—:-[Laius  of  1840,  cli.  381,  §  3. 

§  7.  The  trustees  of    the   state  library,  may  from 

Duplicates    ^^^^  ^^  time,  sell  or  exchange  duplicate  or 

sofdo?ex-  in^perfect  books  belonging  to  the  library, 

changed,     ^q^  neccssary  for  the  use  thereof. —  [Latus 

of  1845,  ch.  85,  §  3. 

§  8.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  trustees  of  the  state 
Annual  library  annually  to  report  to  the  legislature 
report.  ^|-^^  manner  in  which  the  moneys  by  them 
received  during  the  year  preceding  have  been  ex- 
pended, together  with  a  true  and  perfect  catalogue 
of  all  the  books,  maps  and  charts  which  have  been 
added  to  the  library  since  the  date  of  the  last  preced- 

library  for  the  period  of  fifteen  days  in  each  year,  to  wit:  from  the  fifth 
to  the  twentieth  of  August,  for  the  purpose  of  cleaning  and  dusting  the 
books  of  the  said  library,  and  for  making  such  internal  arrangements  as . 
the  trustees  may  think  proper.  See  p.  53. 


50  LAWS    RELATIVE  TO 

ing  annual  report,  and  whether  any,  and  if  so,  what 
books,  maps  and  charts  have  been  lost;  and  also  at 
the  end  of  every  five  years,  to  report  in  like  manner 
a  full  and  perfect  catalogue  of  all  the  books,  maps 
and  charts  then  remaining  in  the  library. —  [Lmns  of 
1844,  ch.  255,  §  7. 

§  9.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  trustees  to  provide, 
Members  of  ^^  ^^^"*  regulations,  that  any  member  of 
may'fakr  ^^^®  Senate  or  assembly,  during  the  session 
books.  Qf  ^1j0  legislature,  or  of  the  senate  only,  shall 
be  permitted,  under  proper  restrictions,  forfeitures  and 
penalties,  to  take  to  his  boarding-house,  or  private 
room,  any  book  belonging  to  the  library,  except  such 
books,  as  the  trustees  shall  determine  are  necessary 
always  to  be  kept  in  the  library,  as  books  of  refer- 
ence; but  no  member  of  the  legislature  shall  be  per- 
mitted to  take  or  detain  from  the  library,  more  than 
two  volumes  at  any  one  time. —  [1  R.  S.  216,  §  6. 

g  10.  Before  the  president  of  the  senate,  or  the 
Members  to  Speaker  of  the  assembly,  shall  grant  to  any 
books.  member  a  certificate  of  the  time  of  his  at- 
tendance, he  shall  be  satisfied  that  such  member  has 
returned  all  books  taken  out  of  the  library  by  him, 
and  has  settled  all  accounts  for  fines,  for  injuring  such 
books,  or  otherwise. —  [Idenij  §  7. 

§  11.  It  shall  also  be  the  duty  of  the  trustees  to 
Limitation,  provide  in  their  regulations,  that  no  book, 
map,  or  other  publication,  shall  be  at  any  time  taken 
out  of  the  library  by  any  other  person  than  a  mem- 
ber of  the  legislature,  for  any  purpose  whatever. — 
Jdetn,  §  8. 


STATE    LIBRARY.  51 

§  12.   The  heads  of  the  several  departments,  and 
Heads  of     the  trustees  of  the  State  library  shall  have 

departm'ts  ,      i        i       p  ,i      ti 

and  trus-    the  Same  right  to  take  books  from  the  library- 
take  books,  as  is  now  enjoyed  by  the  members  of  the 

legislature.  —  [Laivs  q/"  1845,  ch.  85,  §  1. 
.§  13.   The  judges  of  the  court  of  appeals  and  the 

Judges  and  justices  of  the  Supreme  court,  shall  be  al- 
may  take  lowed  to  take  books  from  the  library  under 
books.        ^]^g  same  regulations  as  the  members  of  the 

legislature. —  [Lazvs  o/"  1848,  ch.  262,  §  3. 

§  14.   Of  the  copies  of  each  volume  of  the  reports 

Copies  of      of   the  court  of  appeals   delivered   to   the 

appeals^     Secretary  of  State,  he  shall   deposit   three 

be^depos^  copies  in  the  State  library.—  [Laws  of  1847, 

ited  in.      ^  ^Y\.  280,  §  74. 

§  15.  Copies   of   and   extracts   from    any   and   all 

€opiesof     i'<^'Cords,  books,  papei-s,  documents,  files  and 

records        manuscripts  in  the  possession  or  custody  of 

may  be  read  ^  ^  "^ 

in  evidence,  the  regents  of  the  university  as  such,  or  as 
trustees  of  the  State  library,  or  otherwise,  in  their 
official  capacity,  and  duly  authenticated  under  the 
hand  of  the  chancellor  or  secretary,  and  under  the 
common  seal  of  tlie  said  regents,  as  a  true  copy  of 
such  original  and  of  the  whole  thereof  as  aforesaid, 
may  be  used  and  read  in  evidence  in  all  courts  and 
places  in  this  State,  with  the  same  force  and  effect  as 
the  originals  might  be,  if  produced. —  [Laios  of  1870, 
ch.  60,  §  1. 

§  16.   Resolved,    That  the   law  department  of  the 
Trustees      State  librarv  having  been  established  for  the 

may  make  «"  i       "  nr.  <.      i 

rules,  etc.  usc   of  the  Officers  of  the  government,  the 


62  LAWS   RELATIVE  TO 

courts  and  the  bar,  as  a  library  in  which  shall  be 
gathered  books  to  which  such  officers  may  be  re- 
quired to  refer  in  the  exercise  of  their  duties  ;  there- 
fore it  is  the  duty  of  the  trustees  of  the  said  library 
to  secure  its  uninterrupted  use  to  such  purposes 
whenever,  in  their  judgment,  it  may  become  neces- 
sary ;  and  that  to  secure  that  end,  the  said  trustees 
should  limit  its  use  to  such  persons  and  officers  espe- 
cially during  the  session  of  the  legislature  and  the 
terms  of  the  courts  ;  and  should  also,  if  it  becomes 
necessary,  inclose  the  books  on  the  shelves,  and  make 
any  other  rules  and  regulations  for  the  preservation 
of  said  library,  which  may  not  be  inconsistent  witli 
the  purpose  thereof  and  the  statutes  concerning  the 
same. — [Concurrent  Resolution^  Ajjril  16,1861  [Ses- 
sion Laius,  p.  8B1). 

§  17.  Resolved,  That  there  be  added  to  the  thirteenth 
standing  rule   of   the   ioint   rules   of  the 

Copies  of  *^  '' 

extra  docu-  senate  and  assembly,  at  the  end  thereof  the 

mentstobe  »  ,,       .  ,         /-rTr, 

furnished  followmg  words  :  **  Whenever  extra  copies 
of  any  document  or  publication  of  any  kind 
shall  be  ordered  printed,  the  printer  shall  be  author- 
ized and  required  to  deliver  to  the  trustees  of  tlie 
state  library  at  least  five  copies  in  addition  to  the 
number  so  ordered  for  the  use  of  the  said  library, 
and  whenever  more  than  five  hundred  copies  are  so 
ordered,  the  printer  shall  in  like  manner  furnish  five 
additional  copies  for  each  five  hundred,  for  tlie  pur- 
pose of  literary  exchanges." — {Goncicrrent  Resolution^ 
April  21,  1869  {Session  Latus,  p.  2418).  13th  Joint 
Rule,  1875,  and  sichsequent  years. 


STATE   LIBRARY.  63 

§  18.  Resolved,  That  the  trustees  of  the  State  library 
Library  to  ^®  authorized  and  required  to  close  the  said 
for*^c?ean-  ^i^i'^^J  ^^r  the  period  of  fifteen  days  in  each 
ing,  etc.  year,  to  wit:  from  the  fifth  to  the  twentieth 
days  of  August,  for  the  purpose  of  cleaning  and  dust- 
ing the  books  of  the  said  library,  and  for  making 
such  internal  arrangements  as  the  trustees  may  think 
proper. — [Concurrent  Resolution,  April  9,  1856  (Ses- 
sion Laws,  p.  364). 


54  LAWS   RELATIVE   TO 


CHAPTER  VII. 


THE   STATE    MUSEUM   OF   NATURAL   HISTORY. 

§  1.  The  regents  of  the  university  are  hereby  au- 
thorized and  directed  to  make  suitable  pro- 
^Slt®of*nat-  visions  for  the  safe-keeping  of  the  cabinets 
uraihis-      of  natural  history  no\7  deposited  in  the  old 
^^^^'  State  hall,  and  to  employ  a  person  to  take 

charge  of  the  same. —  [Laws  0/1845,  ch.  179,  §  1. 

§  2.  The  hall  for  the  State  cabinet  [now  museum] 
of  natural  history,  and  the  agricultural  mu- 
^Ifd  others  seum,  IS  placed  under  the  joint  care  and  cus- 
the  custo-  tody  of  the  regents  of  the  university  and  the 
executive  committee  of  the  State  agricul- 
tural society. —  [Lmvs  o/lS63,  ch.  135. 

All  bills  and  charges  shall  be  audited  and  paid  only 
on  the  certificate  of  the  secretary  of  the  board  of 
regents  and  the  secretary  of  the  State  agricultural 
society.— rZrt?/;5  of  1S73,  ch.  643  (p.  1004). 

The  building  shall  hereafter  be  under  the  super- 
vision and  control  of  the  commissioners  of  the  land 
office,  and  the  bills  therefor  audited  by  the  comp- 
troller.— J/^rtz^^^  q/*1874,  ch.  323  (p.  383). 

The  said  museum  shall  hereafter  be  under  the  sole 
charge  of  said  regents. —  [Laws  of  1876,  ch.  193  (p. 
182). 

Resolved,  That  the  trustees  of  the  State  Museum 
be  authorized  to  occupy,  for  the  purposes  of  said 
Rooms  in  Muscum,  sucli  Tooms  in  the  State  Hall  as 
State  Hall,  may  be  vacated,  under  the  direction  of  the 
trustees  of  the  State  Hall. — [Concurrent  Resolution^ 
March  24,  1881. 


STATE  MUSEUM  OF  if  ATURAL  HISTORY.  55 

§  3.  The  State  cabinet  of  natural  history  is 
state  hereby  established  as  a  museum  of  scientific 

natural"  ^^  ^^^^  practical  geology  and  general  natural 
history.      history,  at  the  capital  of  the  State,  under 
the  care  and  custody  of  tlie  regents  of  the  university, to 
be  known  hereafter  as  "The  New  York  State  Museum 
of  Natural  History."—  [Lmus  of  1870,  cli.  557,  §  1. 

§  4.  The  museum  shall  bo  organized  in  accord- 
Organiza-  ^''^^^  ^^'^^^^  ^^^^  P^^^  recommendcd  to  the 
tion.  legislature     by    the    board   of   regents,   in 

their  report  of  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-six,  and 
the  present  curator  shall  act  as  director  of  the  museum, 
and  shall  supervise  and  direct  all  its  scientific  and 
practical  operations,  and  he  sliall  appoint  such  as- 
sistants or  curators  of  departments  as  may  be  required 
for  the  accomplishment  of  said  plan,  with  the  con- 
currence of  the  chancellor  of  the  board  of  regents, 
or  the  committee  of  the  same  having  charge  of  the 
museum.  —  [Idem,  §  2. 

§  5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  director  of  the 
Free  muscum  and  the  chancellor  of  the  board  of 

scientific 

lectures,  regents  to  organize  a  plan  and  make  the 
necessary  arrangements  to  establish  an  annual  course 
of  free  scientific  lectures  in  connection  with  the 
museum,  as  soon  as  practicable,  and  within  two  years 
from  the  passage  of  this  act. —  [Idem,  §  3. 

§  6.  The  assistants  and  curators    of    departments 

provided  for  by  the  second  section  of  the  act  entitled 

Appoint-     "  ^^^  ^^^  ^^^  relation  to  the  State  Cabinet  of 

assilt-*^^     Natural  History,"  passed  May  second,  eigh- 

ants,  etc.    teen  hundred  and  seventy,  shall  be  appointed 

by  the  director  of  the  State  Museum  of  Natural  His- 


56  LAWS   RELATIVE  TO 

tory,  with  the  concurrence  of  the  board  of  regents  of 
the  university.  —  ^Laius  of  1871,  ch.  711,  §  1. 

§  ?.  The  annual  course  of  free  scientific  lectures 
authorized  by  the  third  *  section  of  said  act  shall  bo 
Lectures,  organized  under  the  direction  of  the  board 
of  regents  and  the  director  of  the  State  Museum.  — 
[Idem J  §  2. 

§  8.  For  the  salary  of  the  director,  as  established 
Salary  of  i^^  ^^c  appropriation  bill  of  eighteen  hun- 
offlcers.  ^j.g^  ^j^^  seventy,  for  three  assistants  as 
now  employed  by  him,  and  for  the  increase  and 
preservation  of  the  collection,  the  sum  of  ten  thou- 
sand dollars  annually  shall  be  and  is  hereby  appropria- 
ted, and  all  expenditures  for  compensation  of  assist- 
ants, or  for  the  increase  and  preservation  of  tho 
collections,  shall  be  made  by  the  director,  with  the 
approval  of  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university. — 
[Laws  of  1870,  ch.  557,  §  4 ;  ch.  492  (p.  1100) ;  Lmos 
of  1871,  ch.  711,  §3. 

§  9.  The  botanical  department  as  now  organized 
Botanical     shall  be  Continued  as  originally  contempla- 

departm't.  ^^^^    f^^.    ^j^j.^^   ^^^^^   f^.^^^    ^j^^   ^^^    ^f  ^he 

present  year. —  [Laios  o/'1870,  ch.  557,  §  5. 

Distribution  of  Duplicates. 

§  10.  The  State  palaeontologist,  under  the  direction 

of  the  regents  of  the  university,  is  hereby  authorized 

To  Cornell  ^o  sclcct  from  the  duplicate  fossils  and  min- 

iibrary.      q^hXs^  belonging  to  the  State,  as  full  and 

complete  a  collection  of  specimens  as  can  be  made  for 

*  Same  as  §  5,  above.    . 


STATE  MUSEUM  OF  ]!q"ATURAL  HISTORY.  5T 

the  purpose,  and  label  and  mark  the  same  with  their 
proper  scientific  names,  so  that  they  shall  be  properly- 
distinguished,  and  present  them  in  the  name  of  the 
State  to  the  Cornell  library;  the  labeling  being  done 
at  the  expense  of  said  library.  —  [Laivs  of  1865,  ch.  697. 
■  §  11.  The  State  palaeontologist,  under  direction  of 
the  regents  of  the  university,  is  hereby  authorized  to 
To  Cornell  select  from  the  duplicate  fossils  and  miner- 

univers-  ^ 

ity-  als  belonging  to  the  State,  as  full  and  com- 

plete a  collection  of  specimens  as  can  be  made  for  the 
purpose,  and  label  and  mark  the  same  with  their 
proper  scientific  names,  so  that  they  shall  be  properly 
distinguished,'  and  present  them,  in  the  name  of  the 
State,  to  the  Cornell  University  at  Ithaca,  New  York. 
—  [Lmos  of  1868,  ch.  179,  §  1. 

§  12.  The  Cornell  library  is  hereby  empowered  to 
transfer  to  the  Cornell  university  any  articles  or 
Transfer      things  whatsoever,  or  right  to  receive  any 

Cm-'neii      articles  or  things  whatsoever,  which  said  Cor- 

hbrary.  ^^^^^  library  has  already  received,  or  has  been 
or  will  be  entitled  to  receive,  under  and  by  virtue  of 
an  act  entitled  '*  An  act  to  donate  to  the  Cornell 
library  a  collection  from  the  duplicates  of  fossils  and 
minerals  belonging  to  the  State,"  passed  May  eleven, 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-five,  by  resolution  of  the 
trustees  of  said  Cornell  library  at  any  regular  meeting 
thereof.  —  [Idem,  g  2. 

§  13.  The  curator  of  the  State  cabinet,  under  the 
direction  of  the  regents  of  the  university,  is  hereby 
To  Ameri-  authorized  to  select  from  the  duplicate  spec- 
,  seum  of     imens  of  natural  history  belonging   to  the 

History.     State,  and  those  which  the  State  may  acquire^ 
8 


58  LAWS   RELATIVE   TO 

and  from  all  other  specimens  of  natural  history  which 
may  be  disposed  of  by  the  regents  or  the  State,  the 
first  and  best  series  of  specimens,  subject,  however,  to 
the  rights  of  other  institutions  under  existing  laws, 
and  label  the  same  with  their  proper  scientific  names, 
and  present  them,  in  the  name  of  the  State,  to  the 
American  Museum  of  Natural  History  in  the  city  of 
New  York  ;  all  of  which  is  to  be  done  at  the  expense 
of  said  Museum.  —  [Laws  of  1869,  ch.  ?74. 

§  14.  The  Syracuse  university  is  hereby  included  in 
the  provisions  specified  in  chapter  one  hundred  and 
ToSyra-  sevcnty-nino  of  the  laws  of  eighteen  hun- 
versity  drcd  and  sixty-eight,  in  regard  to  the  distri- 
bution of  duplicate  fossils  and  minerals  to  the  Cornell 
university.  — \La2us  of  1873,  ch.  541  (Session  Lmvs, 
p.  1241)." 

§  15.  Resolved,  That  the  regents  of  the  university 
shall  have  the  authority  to  distribute  from  the  State 
To  Normal  Museum,  to  the  normal  schools  of  the  State 
schools.  and  to  such  institutions  as  are  subject  to 
their  visitation,  such  duplicate  specimens  illustrating 
the  Natural  History  of  this  State  as  may  not  be 
required  for  the  Museum  or  for  the  institutions 
already  designated  by  the  legislature  to  receive  such 
collections.  —  [Concurre?it  Resolution,  May  6,  1875 
(Session  Laivs,  p.  824),  as  amended  by  Con.  Res.  of 
MarcJi  14,  1881  (Se7i,  Journal,  p.  217). 


COLONIAL   HISTORY.  5^ 


CHAPTER  VIII. 

THE   COLONIAL   HISTORY   OF    THE   STATE. 

Sec.  1.  An  agent  shall  be  appointed  by  the  gov- 
Copies  of  ernor  of  this  State,  by  and  with  the  advice 
mSltsto  and  consent  of  the  senate,  to  visit  England, 
cured.  Holland  and  France,  for  the  purpose  of  pro- 
curing, if  possible,  the  originals,  *and  if  not,  copies 
of  all  such  documents  and  papers  in  the  archives 
and  offices  of  those  governments,  relating  to,  or  in 
any  way  affecting,  the  colonial  other  history  of  this 
State,  as  he  may  deem  important  to  illustrate  that 
history.  —  [Laivs  o/'1839,  ch.  315,  §  1. 

§  2.  The  said  documents  and  papers,  when  pro- 
Piace  of  cured,  shall  be  deposited  in  the  office  of  the 
secretary  of  this  State,  subject  to  the  use  of  the  State 
Historical  Society.  —  [Idem,  §  2. 

§  3.  The  manuscript  documents  relating  to  the 
Docu-  colonial  history  of  this  State,  now  in  the 
beftninl*^  ^^^^  of  the  Secretary  of  State,  which  Avere 
iated,etc.  procured  under  and  by  virtue  of  an  act  of 
the  legislature  passed  May  2,  1839,  entitled  "An  act 
to  appoint  an  agent  to  procure  and  transcribe  docu- 
ments in  Europe  relative  to  the  colonial  history  of 
this  State  [ch.  315],"  or  such  portions  thereof  as  the 
State  officers  hereinafter  named  shall  deem  advisable^ 
shall  be  translated  and  printed  for  the  use  of  the 
State.— [X«?^5  of  1849,  ch.  175,  §  1. 


60  LAWS    RELATIVE   TO 

§  4.  The  governor,  secretary  of  State  and  comp- 
^cha?gl'"  troller,  shall  cause  snch  documents  to  be 
prepared,  printed  and  bound  in  volumes  of  such  size 
as  they  may  determine  upon,  and  for  such  purpose 
are  hereby  authorized  to  employ  some  suitable  person 
to  translate  such  parts  thereof  as  are  necessary,  at  a 
reasonable  compensation,  to  be  fixed  and  certified  by 
them.  —  [Idemy  §  2. 

§  5.  The  said  State  officers  shall  issue  proposals  for 
^/tc^^"^'  ^^^  printing  and  binding  of  such  numbers  of 
copies  of  said  documents  as  they  shall  deem  advisa- 
ble to  cause  to  be  printed,  not  exceeding  five  thou- 
sand, in  the  same  manner  as  proposals  are  required 
to  be  issued  for  the  printing  and  binding  of  legisla- 
tive documents,  and  shall  make  a  contract  for  such 
printing  and  binding  with  such  person  or  persons  as 
shall  have  submitted  ^oroposals  therefor,  which,  all 
things  considered,  they  may  deem  most  advantageous 
to  the  interests  of  the  State,  provided  any  of  said 
proposals  shall  be  by  them  considered  reasonable.  — 
Idem,  §  3. 

§  C.  The  said  State  officers  are  hereby  author- 
c^w'"'8^<^'  ized  to  cause  such  portions  of  said  docu- 
ments to  be  stereotyped  as  they  may  deem  the 
interests  of  the  State  to  demand,  and  to  secure  or 
sell  the  copyright  thereof  as  in  their  judgment  shall 
be  for  the  interest  of  the  State.  —  [Ide7n,  §  4. 

§  7.  One  thousand  copies  of  said  documents,  when 

Mode  of   printed     and    bound,    shall     be   deposited 

tion.     "  with  the   secretary  of  State,  and   one  copy 

thereof  delivered  to  each  member  of  the  present  legis- 


coloinIal  history.  61 

lature,  the  president  of  the  senate,  clerks  and  elect- 
ive officers  of  the  present  senate  and  assembly,  and 
twenty- three  copies  thereof  (being  one  to  each)  to 
the  several  State  officers  who  are  entitled  to  bonnd 
copies  of  legislative  documents,  and  the  residue  of 
said  one  thousand  copies  shall  be  by  said  secretary  of 
State  retained  until  disposed  of  as  the  governor,  sec- 
retary of  State  and  comptroller  may  direct  for  the 
purpose,  and,  in  the  way  of  literary  exchanges,*  and 
the  remaining  copies,  wiiicli  shall  be  printed  under 
the  provisions  of  this  act,  shall  be  sold  under  the 
directions  of  said  State  officers,  for  such  price  as 
shall  be  determined  by  them,  not  less  than  twenty- 
five  per  cent  over  the  actual  cost  of  preparing,  print- 
ing and  binding  the  same,  and  the  proceeds  thereof 
paid  into  the  State  treasury.  —  [Idem,  §  5. 

§8.  Resolved,  That  the  secretary  of  State  distribute 
and  deliver  to  each  member,  officer  and  reporter  of  the 
legislature,  one  copy  of  the  Colonial  History  of  this 
State,  excepting  those  who  have  already  received  or 
are  entitled  to  a  copy  thereof,  under  the  act  to  pro- 
vide for  the  publishing  of  certain  documents  relating 
to  the  Colonial  History  of  the  State,  passed  March 
thirteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  forty-nine. — [Con- 
current Resolution,  April  13,  1855,  Session  Laws,  p. 
1119. 

§  9.  The  publication  of  the  documents  relating  to 
the  Colonial  History  of  the  State,  pursuant  to  chap- 

*  Under  this  provision,  500  copies  were  delivered  to  the  Regents  of 
the  University,  and  20  copies  to  J.  R.  Brodhead.— [i?cgfe>i(s'  Minutes, 
Jan.  12,  1854. 


€2  LAWS    RELATIVE   TO 

ter  one  liuudre'd  and  seventy -five  of  the  laws  of  eigh- 

Tobecom-  teen  hundred  and  forty-nine,  shall  be  com- 
pleted un-  "^ 
derdirec-  pleted  Under  the  direction  of  the  Regents  of 

Regents,  the  University,  who  shall  hereafter  have  the 
<iharge  of  the  same,  and  of  all  things  relating  thereto, 
in  i^lace  of  and  with  the  same  powers  as  the  officers 
named  in  said  act. —  [Laws  of  1856,  ch.  168,  §  1. 

§  10.  If  the  said  Eegents  shall  ascertain  that  by  the 
^'s^tcfsub"  contracts  already  made  in  regard  to  the  said 

ject  mat-  ^yoj.]^^  the  State  has  agreed  to  print  the 
whole  of  said  documents,  and  they  shall  be  of  opinion 
that  j^ortions  only  of  those  not  yet  printed  should  be 
published,  they,  the  said  Kegents,  may  in  that  event 
arrange  with  the  contractors  for  the  publication,  in  the 
place  of  the  documents  thus  withdrawn,  of  others  in 
relation  to  the  early  history  of  the  State,  to  an  equiva- 
lent extent,  so  as  not  to  increase  the  amount  of  the 
contract.  The  secretary  of  State  is  hereby  author- 
ized to  ])ermit  all  proper  investigations  in  liis  office, 
«,nd  the  use  of  any  documents  or  books  therein,  for 
this  purpose.  —  [Idem,  §  2. 

§  11.  Five  copies  of  the  said  published  documents 
Mode  of    shall  be  delivered    to  each   member  of  the 

tion.  present  legislature,  and  five  coi)ies  thereof 
«hall  be  given  to  each  of  the  clerks,  officers  and  re- 
porters of  the  present  senate  and  assembly,  [and  to 
the  several  public  officers  who  are  entitled  to  bound 
oopies  of  legislative  documents.]*  Three  hundred 
copies  thereof  shall  be  placed  with  the  Eegents  of 
the  University,  and  two  hundred  and   fifty  copies 

*  Words  lu  brackets  repealed  by  oh.  855,  §  1,  of  Laws  of  1857. 


COLONIAL    HISTORY.  63 

tliereof  with  the  secretary  of  State  for  literary  ex- 
changes and  distribution,  as  they  may  deem  proper. 
The  remaining  copies  shall  be  offered  for  sale,  under 
the  direction  of  the  Eegents,  on  such  public  notice 
rrice,        and  on  sucli  terms  and  price,  not  less  than 

sold.  two  dollars  and  fifty  cents  per  volume,  as 
they  may  deem  proper ;  and  such  copies  as  remain 
unsold  at  the  end  of  six  months,  shall  be  placed  in 
the  custody  of  the  Regents  of  the  University,  subject 
to  future  distribution  by  the  legislature  ;  the  pro- 
ceeds of  any  such  sales  made  by  the  said  Regents, 
after  deducting  their  necessary  expenses  under  this 
act,  sliall  be  paid  into  the  State  treasury.  Persons 
who  may  have  already  subscribed  for  or  purchased 
said  documents,  or  such  of  them  as  may  have  been 
Price  to     published,  shall  be  credited  with  the  amount 

ers.  they  may  have  paid,  and  be  allowed  to  com- 

plete their  sets  at  the  price  fixed  by  the  Regents  as 
aforesaid.  —  [Idem,  §  3. 

§  12.  Resolved,  That  the  secretary  of  State,  out  of 
^s^eifma'    ^^^®   ^^^^  hundred   and   fifty  copies   of    the 

complete.  Golouial  History  which  he  has  authority  to 
distribute  under  the  act  entitled  *^' An  act  in  relation 
to  the  Colonial  History  of  the  State  and  the  publica- 
tion and  distribution  thereof"  [ch.  168,  1856],  shall 
supply  all  persons  with  the  additional  volumes  neces- 
sary to  complete  the  sets  to  whom  the  volumes  here- 
tofore published  have  been  voluntarily  distributed. — 
[Concurrent  Resolution,  April  9,  1856 ;  Session  Laius, 
p.  365. 

§  13.   So  much  of  section  three  of  the  act  in  rela- 


64  LAWS   RELATIVE  TO 

tion  to  the  publication  and  distribution  of  the  Colo- 
nial History  of  the  State,  passed  April  twelfth,  eigh- 
teen hundred  and  fifty-six  [eh.  168],  which  directs 
-copies  to  be  delivered  to  the  several  public  officers 
who  are  entitled  to  bound  copies  of  the  public  docu- 
ments, is  hereby  repealed. — [Lmvs  of  1857,  ch.  355,  §  1. 
§  14.  A)\  persons  now  in  possession  of  the  volumes 
•Certain     of  Said  history  already  published    shall  be 

be'^coin-^  f  umishcd  with  the  remaining  volumes  on  the 

pieted.  g^jjjg  terms  on  which  they  have  received  the 
preceding  ones,  and  each  member,  officer  and  reporter 
of  this  legislature,  who  has  not  received  any  copy 
thereof,  shall  be  entitled  to  receivQ  one  complete 
-copy ;  the  remaining  copies  shall  be  at  the  the  dispo- 
Literary    sal  of  the  Rcgcnts  of  the  University  [for  the 

changes,  purposc  of  literary  exchanges.]* —  [Idem,  §  2. 

§  15.   The   provisions    of    this   act   shall    not    be 

Act  how    deemed  to  deprive  any  member  or  officer  of 

strued.  the  legislature,  who  was  entitled  to  receive 
the  same  under  said  act  of  eighteen  hundred  and 
fifty-six,  from  receiving  the  same,  or  from  receiving 
the  future  volumes  on  the  same  terms  on  which  they 
received  the  preceding  ones.. — [Idem,  §  3. 

§  16.  Section  two,  of  the  act  entitled  *^  An  act  to 
Mode  of    amend  an  act  entitled  'An  act  in  relation  to 

tion.  "  the  Colonial  History  of  the  State,  and  the 
publication  and  distribution  thereof,'  passed  April 
twelfth,  eighteen  hundred  and  fifty-six,"  passed  April 
thirteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  fifty-seven,  is 
hereby  amended  by  striking  out  all  after  the  word 

*  Words  in  brackets  amended  by  chapter  81,  Laws  of  1858. 


COLOiq^IAL   HISTORY.  65 

"  university,"  and  insert  as  follows  :  "  Who  shall  de- 
liver one  full  copy  of  said  Colonial  History  to  each 
member,  officer  and  reporter  of  the  present  legisla- 
turCj  and  also  to  the  State  officers,  excepting  those 
officers,  reporters  and  State  officers  who  have  hereto- 
fore received  copies  by  any  resolution  or  law,  passed 
by  any  previous  l(^gislature ;  the  remaining  copies 
shall  be  at  the  disposal  of  the  Eegents  of  the  Uni- 
versity, for  the  purpose  of  literary  exchanges. — [Laius 
of  1858,  ch.  81,  §  1. 

§  17.   The  Regents  of   the  University  are   hereby 
Index  to   directed  to  embody  the  index  of  the  Colonial 

be  pub-  ,  ''  „  . 

lished.  History  m  a  separate  volume,  of  a  size  uni- 
form with  those  already  printed,  and  to  be  distributed 
in  the  same  manner  and  to  the  same  persons  desig- 
nated in  the  foregoing  section.  —  [Idem,  §  2. 

§  18.  The   Regents  of   the   University  are   hereby 
Mode  of    directed  to  deliver  to  each  member  and  offi- 

tion.  cer  of  the  present  legislature,  one  copy  of  the 
Colonial  History  of  the  State,  and  one  copy  of  the 
index  to  the  same,  when  it  shall  be  published. — 
[Laws  of  1859,  ch.  395,  §  1. 

§  19.  The  remaining  copies  are  hereby  continued 
Literary     at  the  disposal  of  the  Regents,  to  be  used 

changres.  for  the  purpose  of  literary  exchanges.  — 
[Idem,  §  2. 

§  20.  The  Regents  of  the  University  are   hereby 
Modeof    authorized   and  directed  to  deliver  to  each 

tion.       member  and  officer  and  reporter  of  tlie  sen- 
ate and  assembly,  one  set  of  the  Colonial  History  of 
the  State  of  New  York,  and  the  index  thereof,  pro- 
9 


66  LAWS    RELATIVE  TO 

Proviso,  vided  there  shall  be  found,  on  examination, 
to  be  a  sufficient  number  of  such  history  and  index 
owned  or  procurable  by  the  State,  to  supply  such 
members  and  officers.  And  in  case  there  should  be 
any  copies  of  said  history  and  index  left  after  sup- 
plying the  members  as  above,  one  of  sucli  copies  shall 
be  distributed  .to  the  officers  of  said  senate  and  assem- 
bly in  the  following  order  : 

1.  To  the  head  clerks  and  their  assistants. 

2.  To  the  postmasters  and  assistant  postmasters. 

3.  To  the  sergeant-at-arms  and  their  assistants. 

4.  To  tlie  doorkeepers  and  their  assistants. 

5.  To  the  reporters.—  [Laws  0/I86O,  ch.  518,  §  1. 
§  21.   The  Eegents  of  the  University  arc   hereby 

Rebinding  directed  to  cause  such  volumes  of  the  Colo- 
ized.  nial  History  as  have  been  damaged  to  be  re- 
bound, so  far  as  in  their  judgment  the  same  may  be 
expedient,  and  the  sum  of  two  hundred  dollars,  or 
so  much  thereof  as  may  be  necessary,  shall  be  paid 
by  tlie  treasurer  on  the  presentation  of  the  proper 
vouchers  to  the  comptroller,  and  on  his  warrant  for 
this  purpose.  —  [Idem,  §  2. 

§  22.  For  the  legislative  printing     *     *     *     and 

T>.,K„«        foi'  printing  volume  twelve  of  the  Colonial 

tionof    History,  under  direction   of  the  secretary  of 

twelve^    S  tate,  one  h  u nd red  t li  ousand  dollars. — [Laws 

of  1877,  ch.  128,  p.  138. 
§  23.  For  the   legislative    printing     *     *     *     and 
continuing  pui)lication  of  the  Colonial  His- 
^tioncSi-  ^^'X     *      *     *     lilty    thousand     dollars.— 
tinued.      [Lnivs  of  1880,  ch.  141,  p.  255. 

Note.— The  printed  set  of  Colonial  History  Documents  consists  of 
twelve  quarto  volumes.  The  eleventh  volume  is  a  general  index  of 
the  first  ten  volumes. 


JS-ATURAL   HISTORY.  67 


CHAPTER  IX. 

THE  NATURAL  HISTORY  OF  THE  STATE. 

Sec.  1.   The  governor  is  hereby  authorized  and  di- 
Geoiogicai  rected  to  employ  a  suitable  number  of  com- 

provfded   petent  persons,  whose  duty  it  shall  be,  under 

^^'  his  direction,  to  make  an  accurate  and  com- 
plete geological  survey  of  this  State,  which  shall  be 
accompanied  with  proper  maps  and  diagrams,  and 
furnish  a  full  and  scientific  description  of  its  rocks, 
soils  and  minerals,  and  of  its  botanical  and  zoological 
productions,  together  with  specimens  of  the  same; 
which  maps,  diagrams,  and  specimens  shall  be  de- 
posited in  the  State  library  ;  and  similar  specimens 
shall  be  deposited  in  such  of  the  literary  institutions 
in  this  State  as  the  secretary  of  State  shall  direct.  — 
[Laws  of  183G,  ch.  142,  §  1. 

§  2.   The  commissioners  of  the  land- office  are  au- 
oid  State  thorizcd  to  receive    such    further    orrant    or 

lot.  extension  oi  tlie  conveyance  irom  the  corpo- 
ration of  the  city  of  Albany,  of  the  old  State  hall 
and  lot  on  which  it  stands,  with  such  modifications 
and  on  such  terms  and  conditions  as  the  said  com- 
missioners may  deem  beneficial  to  the  interest  of  the 
Sta.te.  —  [Laivs  of  1840,  ch.  245,  §  1. 

§  3.  AVhen   the  above  named   grant   shall    be   ob- 
statemu-   tained,  the  trustees  of  the  new  State   hall 

building,  are  authorized  and  required  to  fit  up  and 
prepare  rooms  in  the  old  State  hall,  as  soon  as  the 
same  shall  be  vacated,  in  such  manner  as  they  may 
deem  proper,  for  a  State  museum,  in  which   to  ar- 


68  LAWS   RELATIVE   TO 

range  and  display  the  various  specimens,  maps,  fig- 
ures and  illustrations,  which  may  be  collected  and 
prepared  by  the  geological  corps  in  the  survey  of  the 
Btiite.  —  [Ide7n,  §  2. 

§  4.  The  governor  is  hereby  authorized  to  continue 
Continu-  the  ffcoloffical  survey  of  the  State,   in   the 

anceof  °  °        .         ,  .   ,     .     ,         .  ' 

survey.  Same  manner  m  which  it  has  heretofore  been 
conducted,  until  the  first  Tuesday  in  January,  one 
thousand  eight  hundred  and  forty-two  ;  provided  the 
expense  shall  not  exceed  the  unexpended  balance  of 
moneys  appropriated  for  the  survey  by  the  act  passed 
April  15,  lS?i6.  —  [Laivs  of  1840,  ch.  246. 

§  5.  Resolved,  That  the  geological  survey  of  this 
State,  when  completed,  shall  be  distributed  as  follows: 
five  copies  to  the  governor  ;  five  copies  to  the  lieuten- 
Geoiogicai  ant-ffovernor  ;  one  copy  to  each  member  of 

8UrV6V 

volumes,  the  scnatc  and  assembly,  and  to  the  several 
tributed.  officers  of  the  same ;  one  copy  to  each  of 
the  several  State  officers  ;  three  copies  to  the  State 
library  ;  one  copy  to  each  county  clerk's  office  in  this 
State ;  one  copy  to  each  incorporated  college  in  this 
State ;  and  that  the  remaining  copies  thereof  shall 
be  deposited  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of  State,  to 
be  distributed  in  such  manner  as  the  said  secretary 
may  deem  expedient  and  proper,  or  as  tlie  legislature 
may  hereafter  direct. —  \^Conciirrent  Resolution,  May 
26,  1841 ;  Session  Laws,  p.  372  ;  repealed  hy  Latos  of 
1842,  ch.  149,  §  6. 

§  6.  The  governor  is  liereby  autliorized  to  continue, 
Continu-  until  the  first  Tuesday  in  January,  one  thou- 
survey.    sand  eight  hundred  and  forty-three,  such  of 


I^ATURAL   HISTORY.  6& 

the  various  departments  of  labor  connected  with  the 
geological  survey  of  this  State,  as  may  be  necessary  to 
insure  its  ultimate  completion  and  publication  accord- 
ing to  the  plan  heretofore  contemplated.  —  [Laws  of 
1842,  ch.  149,  §  1. 

§  7.  The  secretary  of  State  is  hereby  directed  to 
Copyright,  sccurc  a  Copyright  of  the  geological  survey 
for  the  benefit  of  this  State.  —  [Idem,  §  3. 

§  8.  Whenever  two  or  more  volumes  of  the  geologi- 
^volumes  ^'^^  survcy  shall  be  published,  the  governor 
rzed^"*^'  ^^^^  secretary  of  State  may  cause  such  books 
to  be  sold,  at  such  prices  as  they  may  deem  expedi- 
ent, and  any  moneys  derived  from  such  sales  shall  be 
applied  to  the  same  purposes  as  the  appropriation 
made  by  the  second  section  of  the  act  ["  materials 
furnished  or  services  rendered."] — [Idein,  §  4. 

§  9.  The  geological  survey,  as  fast  as  completed 
Distribu-  (except  such  volumes  as  may  be  sold  accord- 
tuitous.  ing  to  the  provisions  of  section  four),  shall 
be  distributed  as  follows  :  Two  copies  to  the  governor, 
two  copies  to  the  lieutenant-governor,  one  copy  to  each 
surviving  ex-governor,  and  one  copy  to  each  surviving 
ex-lieutenant-governor  ;  one  copy  to  each  member  of 
the  present  legislature,  one  copy  to  each  of  the  geolo- 
gists engaged  in  said  survey,  three  copies  to  the  State 
library,  one  copy  to  each  county  clerk's  office  in  this 
State,  one  copy  to  each  incorporated  college  in  this 
State,  and  the  remaining  copies  shall  be  deposited  in 
the  office  of  the  secretary  of  State,  to  be  sold  or  dis- 
posed of  in  such  manner  as  the  legislature  may  here- 
after direct.  —  [Idem,  §  5. 


70  LAWS   RELATIVE   TO 

§  10.  The  concurrent  resolution  of  the  senate  and 
assembly,  passed  May  26,  1841,  in  relation  to  the 
distribution  of  the  said  geological  survey  is  hereby 
repealed.  —  \^Idein,  §  6. 

§  11.  The  governor  is  hereby  authorized  to  con- 
Survey  tinue  such  of  the  various  departments  of 
tinued.  labor  connected  with  the  geological  survey 
of  this  State,  as  may  be  necessary  to  insure  its  ulti- 
mate completion  and  publication  according  to  the 
plan  heretofore  contemplated,  and  to  contract  with 
the  printers  to  the  assembly  for  the  publication  of 
the  same,  at  prices  advantageous  to  the  State. — 
[Lmus  of  1843,  ch.  85,  §  1. 

§  12.  Whenever  two  or  more  volumes  of  the  said 
^ofume^  work  sliall  be  completed,  the  governor  and 
secretary  of  State  may  cause  such  books  to  be  sold  at 
such  prices  as  they  shall  deem  proper,  not  less  than 
two  dollars  per  volume,  and  any  moneys  derived  from 
such  sales  may  be  applied  to  the  payment  of  the  geolo- 
gists for  any  debt  due  them  from  the  State  on  account 
of  services  connected  with  said  work. —  [Idein,  §  4. 

§  13.  Articles  of  agreement  made  this  twenty-fourth 
day  of  April,  1843,  between  the  people  of  the  State  of 
New-York,  by  AVilliam  0.  Bouck,  Governor,  pursuant 
to  an  act  entitled  "  An  act  in  relation  to  the  Natural 
History  of  New-York,"  passed  April  8,  1843,  of  the 
first  part,  and  Thomas  B.  Carroll  and  Alanson  Cook, 
printers  to  the  Assembly,  of  the  second  part, 
Witnesseth  :  That  the  said  parties  of  the  second  part 
<^ontract for iiereby  covenant  and  agree  to  publish  and 
print  ail  that  which  remains  to  be  done  to  complete  all 


NATURAL  HISTORY.  71 

the  volumes  of  the  Natural  History  of  the  State  of  New- 
York,  and  also  to  bind  the  said  volumes  ;  the  said 
printing  and  binding  is  in  all  respects  to  be  as  well 
executed  and  of  as  good  paper  as  the  first  volumes  of 
said  History  already  printed. 

The  said  parties  of  the  second  part  are  to  receive 
from  the  Treasury,  for  said  printing  and  binding,  the 
following  prices,  to  wit :  For  the  composition  of  every 
one  thousand  ems,  forty-five  cents  ;  for  every  ream  of 
paper  necessarily  used,  at  the  rate  of  five  dollars  per 
ream  ;  for  the  press  work,  at  the  rate  of  one  dollar  for 
every  white  token;  for  pressing  the  sheets,  at  the  rate 
of  fifty  cents  for  every  ream  ;  for  folding,  at  the  rate 
of  forty  cents  for  every  ream  ;  for  binding,  at  the  rate 
of  sixty-five  cents  per  volume. 

The  foregoing  prices  are  to  include  the  expense  of 
furnishing  all  the  materials,  labelling  the  volumes,  in 
pressing  on  the  outer  side  of  the  covers  the  appropri- 
ate illustrations,  and  the  performance  of  every  kind 
of  labor,  and  every  necessary  expense,  to  a  perfect 
completion  of  the  said  printing  and  binding,  in  all 
respects ;  excepting,  however,  if  there  should  be  any 
rule  work,  as  it  is  technically  called,  that  is,  columns 
of  matter  that  require  to  be  justified,  an  additional  al- 
lowance of  twenty  cents  for  every  one  thousand  ems 
of  such  work  is  to  be  paid. 

The  said  yolumes  are  to  be  of  the  same  size  as  those 
now  printed,  and  every  part  of  the  work  comprised  in 
this  contract  shall  be  done  in  such  manner  and  at 
such  time  as  shall  be  required  by,  and  approved  of, 
by  the  person  administering  the  government   of  this 


T2  LAWS    RELATIVE   TO 

State,  oil  whose  certificate  the  Treasurer  will  be  re- 
quired to  pay,  out  of  any  moneys  in  the  Treasury,  not 
otherwise  appropriated,  the  sum  to  which  the  said 
parties  of  the  second  part  shall  be  entitled  under  this 
contract,  and  as  fast  as  each  volume  shall  be  com- 
pleted, approved  of  by  the  Governor,  and  deposited 
in  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  State. 

In  witness  whereof  the  parties  have  hereunto  sub- 
scribed their  names,  this  day  and  year  first  above 
written. 

wm  c,  bouck, 
thos.  b.  carroll, 
alanso:n^  cook. 

—  [Assem.  Doc,  1850,  No.  9,  p.  48. 


§  14.  As  fast  as  the  several  volumes  of  the  Natural 
History  of  New  York  are  published,  the  governor  and 
Presenta-  secretary  of  State  are  hereby  authorized  and 
of^Naturaf  I'^quircd  to  prcsciit  and  transmit  one  copy  of 
History.  ^\^q  same  with  colored  plates,  including  a 
geological  map  of  the  State,  to  James  "VVadsworth  of 
Geneseo,  one  like  copy  to  each  of  the  governors  of  the 
several  states  of  the  Union,  to  be  deposited  by  them 
at  their  discretion  in  some  public  library  or  literary 
institution  within  their  respective  states;  one  like 
copy  to  the  library  of  Congress,  and  one  hundred  like 
copies  to  such  foreign  governments  and  foreign  liter- 
ary or  scientific  institutions  as  the  governor  and  secre- 
tary aforesaid  may  select,  including,  in  their  discretion, 
such  foreign  governments,  institutions,  corporations 


NATURAL   HISTORY.  73 

or  persons  as  may  have  made  donations  to  the  State 

library. —  [Laivs  of  1844,  ch.  254,  §  1. 

§  15.  The  secretary  of  State  is  hereby  authorized  and 

directed  to  sell  such  of  the  academies,  public  libraries 

Sale  of  ^^^^  literary  associations  in  this  State  which 
acade^-^^  are  incorporated,  as  shall  make  application 
aJi^ho?-^"'  therefor  within  six  months  from  the  passage 
ized.         ^f  ^j^ig  ^g|.^  ^  (3Qpy  q£  ^Y\q  Natural  History  of 

this  State,  at  the  j^rice  of  one  dollar  per  volume,  and  a 
copy  of  the  geological  map  of  the  State  at  the  price  of' 
one  dollar  per  copy,  aud  three  hundred  copies  of  the 
said  volumes  and  map  shall  be  reserved  for  that  pur- 
pose.    [Idem,  §  2. 

§  16.  The  governor  and  secretary  of  State  are  author- 
ized to  make  a  distribution  of  the  remaining  copies  and 
General  map  of  the  Natural  History,  not  otherwise 
thorized.  appropriated  or  disposed  of,  among  the  sev- 
eral counties  of  this  State,  according  to  the  ratio  of 
population  by  the  last  census,  and  transmit  to  the 
county  treasurer  of  said  counties  respectively,  the  num- 
hers  of  copies  to  which  each  county  shall  be  entitled 
by  such  distribution:  the  said  treasurer  of  each  of  said 
counties  shall  cause  the  same  to  be  sold  at  the  price  or 
sum  [of]  one  dollar  per  volume,  and  the  map  for  one 
dollar  per  copy,  and  account  from  time  to  time  to  the 
secretary  of  State  for  the  proceeds  of  the  sale  thereof, 
but  he  shall  not  sell  more  than  one  copy  to  any  cor- 
poration, association  or  individuah  —  [Idem,  §  3. 

§  17.  The  secretary  of  State  is  hereby  authorized 
Sale  to        and  directed  to  sell  to  such  of  the  acade- 

acade- 

mies,etc.,  mies,  public  libraries   and  literary  associa- 

author-        . .  ,        ,  .  *' 

ized.  tions  m  this  State  which  are  now  incorpo- 

10 


74  LA^YS   EELxVTIVE   TO 

rated,  as  shall  have  made  or  which  shall  make 
application  therefor,  a  copy  of  the  Natural  History 
of  this  State,  at  the  price  of  one  dollar  per  volume, 
and  a  copy  of  the  geological  map  of  the  State  at  the 
price  of  one  dollar  per  copy,  out  of  the  remaining 
three  hundred  of  the  said  volumes  and  maps  reserved 
for  that  purpose  by  the  second  section  of  the  act  en- 
titled ''  An  act  in  relation  to  the  Natural  History  of 
New  York,"  passed  May  3,  1844  ;  but  no  sale  of  the 
^l^tric-  said  volumes  and  map  shall  be  made  by  the 
said  secretary  of  State  after  the  expiration  of  one 
year  from  the  passage  of  this  act,  nor  a  second  copy 
to  an  institution  which  has  received  a  copy  of  the  said 
work  under  the  provisions  of  chapter  254,  of  the 
Laws  of  1844.  — [Zaw5  of  1846,  ch.  132,  §  1. 

§  18.  Any  person,  corporation,  or  association  other 
than  such  as  purchase  from  the  several  county  treas- 
urers of  this  State,  under  the  act  entitled  *^  An  act 
in  relation  to  the  Natural  History  of  New  York," 
passed  May  3,  1844,  who  shall,  within  one  year  from 
the  passage  of  this  act,  prove  to  the  satisfaction  of 
the  governor  and  secretary  of  State  that  he,  she  or 
they,  are  the  actual  and  1)ona  fide  owners  of  the  first 
volumes  or  of  any  of  the  consecutive  volumes,  be- 
ginning with  and  including  the  first  of  the  Natural 
History  of  this  State,  shall  be  entitled  to  purchase 
from  said  secretary  the  remaining  volumes  necessary 
Corapie-  to  complete  such  imperfect  sets  of  said  Nat- 
thm-fzed  ^^^"^^  History,  now  published  and  which  shall 
hereafter  be  published,  togetlier  with  the  map  accom- 
panying the  game,  at  the  price  of  one  dollar  per  vol- 


NATURAL   HISTORY.  75 

ume  and  one  dollar  for  said  map  ;  but  no  person  who 
shall  become  such  owner  of  the  said  first  volume  or 
"^forT*^"  ^^  ^^y  ^^  ^^^^  consecutive  volumes,  begin- 
ning with  and  including  the  first  as  aforesaid,  under 
the  fifth  section  of  the  act  entitled  *'  An  act  relating 
to  the  geological  survey  of  the  State,"  passed  April 
9th,  1842, -shall  be  entitled  to  such  remaining  volumes, 
except  upon  payment  of  one  dollar  per  volume  for 
all  such  previous  volumes  of  which  he  shall  have  be- 
come the  owner  as  aforesaid.  —  [Idem,  §  2. 

§  19.  If  the  booksellers  with  whom  contracts  for 
the  sale  of  the  said  work  were  heretofore  entered  into, 
^op^es  ^^^^^  deliver  to  the  secretary  of  State  unsold 
copies  thereof  forming  complete  sets  of  the  same,  as 
far  as  published,  the  said  governor  and  secretary  are 
hereby  authorized  to  sell  and  dispose  of  such  com- 
plete sets  with  the  volumes  remaining  to  be  published 
and  the  said  maps,  at  the  price  of  one  dollar  per  vol- 
ume and  one  dollar  for  said  map.  —  [Idem,  §  3. 

§  20.   The   governor   and   secretary   of    State   are 

^copyright  ^®^6^y  authorized  to  sell  the  copyright  of 

fzed*^^       said  work  in  separate  portions  or  otherwise 

as  soon  as   the  remaining  volumes   thereof  shall  be 

published.  —  [Idem,  §  4. 

§  21.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  several  county 
treasurers  of  this  State,  in  selling  the  volumes  of  the 
Natural  History  of  New  York,  in  pursuance  of  the 
act  entitled  *•'  An  act  in  relation  to  the  Natural  His- 
tory of  New  York,"  passed  May  3d,  1844,  to  sell  and 
deliver  the  volumes  of  said  Natural  History,  first  to 


76  LAWS  BELATIVE  TO 

"^tltfed^to"'  ^^^y  ^^^^  person  or  association  as  shall  within 
be  first      gix  months  after  such  treasurer  shall  have 

supplied.  _ 

received  hereafter  the  several  volumes  of  said  !Nat- 
ural  History,  prove  to  the  satisfaction  of  said  treas- 
urer, that  he,  she  or  they,  are  the  present  bona  fide 
owners  of  the  preceding  volumes  of  said  Natural  His- 
tory, sold  under  the  act  of  May  3d,  1844,  by  the  treas- 
urer of  the  same  county  to  whom  application  shall 
be  made.  —  [/r?em,  §  5. 

§  22.  The  provisions  of  the  first  and  second  sec- 
tions of  the  act  entitled  "  An  act  concerning  the  Nat- 
Provisions  ural  History  of  the  state  of  New  York," 
tinued.  passed  May  5, 1846,  are  hereby  continued,  and 
shall  be  in  force  for  the  term  of  one  year  from  the 
passage  of  this  act;  and  the  secretary  of  State  is  hereby 
authorized  and  directed  to  sell  to  such  of  the  institu- 
tions named  in  the  first  section  of  the  above  men- 
tioned act  which  now  are  or  hereafter  may  be  incor- 
porated during  the  continuance  of  this  act,  copies  of 
the  Natural  History  of  this  State,  upon  the  conditions 
and  subject  to  the  restrictions  therein  contained. — 
[Laivs  of  1847,  ch.  190,  §  1  ;  renewed  for  two  years, 
by  ch.  266,  1849. 

§  23.  The  governor  is  hereby  authorized  to  cause 
to  be  completed,  and  for  that  purpose  to  continue  in 
employment  the  geologists  now  engaged  upon  that 
portion  of  tlie  Natural  History  of  this  State,  relating 
Provision  to  agriculture  and  to  palaiontology,  for  the 
culture  period  of  two  years  from  tlie  time  when 
ontology,  their  salaries  ceased  under  an  arrangement 
with  Governor  Wright,  and  for  no  longer  period  or 


NATURAL   HISTORY.  77 

term  than  above  mentioned,  and  at  the  same  salary  as 
has  been  hitherto  paid  them.  —  [Laius  of  1847,  ch. 
212,  §  1. 

§  24.  The  governor  is  also  authorized  to  contract  for 
all  the  work  connected  with  the  completion  of  the 
Contracts  abovc  mentioned  works,  such  as  drawing, 
ized.  engraving,  coloring  and  all  other  necessary 
work  connected  therewith,  to  be  done  in  such  manner 
as  he  shall  direct.  —  [Idem,  §  2. 

§  25.  The  secretary  of  State  is  hereby  authorized 
Supervis-  ^^^  directed  to  take  charge  of  all  the  mat- 
^^^-  ters  appertaining  to  the  prosecution  and  pub- 
lication of  the  geological  survey  of  the  State.  —  [Laivs 
of  1850,  ch.  360,  §  1.  See  also  ch.  274,  p.  592,  which 
includes  the  secretary  of  the  Eegents. 

§  26.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  secretary  of  State 
and  the  secretary  of  tlie  regents  of  the  university,  to 
Exaraina-  examine  into  and  report  to  the  next  legisla- 
ordered.  tiire,  upon  all  claims  that  may  be  made 
upon  the  State,  for  work  done  on  account  of  the  geo- 
logical survey,  and  upon  all  contracts  that  may  exist 
between  the  State  and  individuals  for  work  yet  to  be 
done  on  account  of  the  survey.  —  [Idem,  §  2. 

§  27.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  secretary  of  State 
Report  to  and  of  the  secretary  of  the  regents  of  the 
be  made,  university,  to  report  to  the  next  legislature 
a  plan  for  the  final  completion  of  the  said  survey,  and 
to  submit  the  estimates  of  the  cost  of  such  comple- 
tion. —  [Idem,  §  3. 

§  28.  Memorandum  of  an  agreement,  made  and  en- 
tered into  between  the  State  of  New  York,  of  the  first 


78  LAWS    RELATIVE   TO 

Contract  part,  and  Richard  H.  Pease,  of  the  city  of 
graving.  Albany,  of  the  second  part,  the  twenty- 
seventh  day  of  July,  one  thousand  eight  hundred 
and  forty-seven  :  Witnesseth,  That  it  is  hereby  cove- 
nanted and  agreed  by  and  between  the  parties,  afore- 
said, that  the  said  Pease  shall  and  may  do,  perform 
and  execute  all  the  lithographic  engravings  of  the 
drawings  which  are  to  be  done  on  stone,  requisite 
and  designed  for  completing  the  publication  of  the 
Natural  History  of  the  State  of  New  York,  under, 
and  in  pursuance  of  the  act  of  the  Legislature,  passed 
May  7,  1847,  for  that  purpose,  and  also  fifty  plates  of 
the  steel  engravings  of  the  said  work,  twentj^-five  of 
which  said  steel  plates  are  to  be  from  drawings  illus- 
trating that  part  of  said  work  in  charge  of  Prof.  Em- 
mons, and  the  remaining  twenty-five  from  drawings 
illustrating  that  part  of  said  work  in  charge  of  Prof. 
Hall ;  and  also  all  the  printing  and  letterings  of  the 
said  engravings,  above  agreed  to  be  given  to,  and 
done,  by  said  Pease. 

And  it  is  further  agreed,  as  aforesaid,  that  the  paper 
for  said  engravings  sliall  be  equal  in  quality  to  that 
now  in  use  for  the  illustrations  of  said  work.  And 
that  the  engraving  should  be  as  good  as  the  speci- 
mens exhibited  to  the  governor,  which  said  specimens 
are  marked  and  signed  "John  Young,"  *' E.  Em- 
mons," and  "James  Hall."  That  the  work,  when 
done,  shall  be  delivered  to  the  geologists,  at  the  State 
geological  rooms,  and  the  steel  plates  shall  be  deliv- 
ered with  the  work,  and  become  the  property  of  the 
party  of  the  first  part.     And  it  is  declared,  agreed 


NATURAL   HISTORY.  79 

and  covenanted  by,  and  in  behalf  of  the  said  party 
of  the  first  part,  that  the  amount  of  lithographic  en- 
gravings which  said  Pease  shall  have,  and  be  entitled 
to,  under  this  contract,  shall  be  equal  to  one  hundred 
plates,  averaging  twenty  figures  each  plate,  and  that 
the  amount  of  steel  engravings  to  be  by  him  done,  as 
aforesaid,  shall  equal  fifty  plates,  averaging  the  same 
number  of  figures,  per  plate,  as  aforesaid. 

And  it  is  further  agreed,  that  the  following  prices 
shall  be  paid  to  said  Pease,  for  work  done  by  him 
under  this  contract,  viz.  : 

For  the  lithographic  engravings,  $3  per  figure,  and 
the  same  price  for  the  steel  engravings.  For  print- 
ing the  same,  11.50  per  hundred.  For  lettering  the 
same,  ^3.50  per  plate,  and  for  the  paper  25  cents  per 
pound.  No  work  to  be  ]3aid  for  until  delivered,  as  afore- 
said, and  inspected  by  the  geologists,  or  one  of  them. 

In  witness  whereof,  and  in  pursuance  of  the  power 
given  to  him  by  the  second  section  of  the  act  afore- 
said, in  behalf  of  the  State,  John  Young,  governor 
of  said.  State,  hath  hereto  set  his  hand,  and  the  said 
Eichard  H.  Pease,  also,  the  day  and  year  first  above 
written. 

(Signed,)  JOHN  YOUNG, 

EICHARD  H.  PEASE. 
—  [Assem.  Doc,  1850,  No.  9,  p.  54. 

§  29.  The  secretary  of  State  is  hereby  authorized 

and   required   to  transmit   to  the   president  of   the 

Presenta-    United  States  a  copv  of  the  Natural  His- 

tion  copy.  ^^^,^  ^f  ^j^g  g^g^^^  ^^  j^^^^  York,  to  be  depos- 


80  LAWS    KELATIVE   TO 

ited  by  him,  for  preservation,  in  the  library  of  the 
executive  mansion.  —  [Laws  of  1851,  ch.  396. 

§  30.  The  provisions  of  the  first  and  second  sec- 
tions of  the  act  entitled  "  An  act  concerning  the  Nat- 
Saiesau-  ^^^^^  History  of  the  State  of  New  York/^ 
thorized.  passed  May  fifth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
forty-six,  are  hereby  continued,  and  shall  be  in  force 
for  the  term  of  two  years  from  the  passage  of  this  act, 
and  the  secretary  of  State  is  hereby  authorized  and 
directed  to  sell,  to  such  of  the  institutions  named  in  the 
first  section  of  the  above  mentioned  act  which  now 
are  incorporated  during  the  continuance  of  this  act, 
copies  of  the  Natural  History  of  this  State  upon  the 
conditions,  and  subject  to  the  restrictions  therein 
contained.  —  [Lmcs  of  1852,  ch.  366,  §  1. 

§  31.  The  provisions  of  the  act  entitled  ''  An  act 
concerning  the  Natural  History  of  the  State  of  New 
Provision  York,"  passed  May  fifth,  eighteen  hundred 
eraies.  and  forty-six,  shall  extend  and  be  in  force 
for  the  term  of  two  years  from  the  passage  of  this 
act,  for  the  benefit  of  all  academies  already  incorpor- 
ated since  the  sixteenth  day  of  April,  eighteen 
hundred  and  fifty-two,  or  which  shall  be  incor- 
porated within  two  years  from  the  passage  of  this 
act,  provided  the  supply  shall  have  not  been  ex- 
hausted. —  [X«?/;5  of  1854,  ch.  80,  §  1. 

§  32.  The  provisions  of  the  first  sections  of  the  act 

Further      entitled   "  An  act  concerning  the  Natural 

acade^.**      History  of  the  State  of  New  York,"  passed 

mi'tho?-^^"'  May  fifth,  eighteen  hundred  and  forty-six, 

*^®^'  arc  hereby  continued  and  shall   be  in  force 


NATUKAL   HISTORY.  81 

for  the  term  of  two  years  from  the  passage  of  this  act ; 
and  the  secretary  of  State  is  hereby  authorized  and 
directed  to  sell  to  such  of  the  institutions  named  in 
the  first  section  of  the  above  mentioned  act,  which 
now  are  or  shall  be  incorporated  during  the  continu- 
ance of  this  act,  copies  of  the  Natural  History  of  this 
State  (reserving  three  for  the  secretary's  office),  upon 
the  conditions  and  subject  to  the  restrictions  therein 
contained. —  [Laivs  of  1855,  ch.  91,  §  1. 

§  33.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  several  county 
treasurers  of  this  State  to  return  to  the  office  of  secre- 
County  ^^ly  of  State,  all  such  volumes  of  the  Nat- 
to^makr^  ural  Ilistory  of  New  York  as  i-emain  unsold 
returns,  jifter  one  year  from  the  time  said  volumes 
were  delivered  to  the  said  county  treasurer,  and  at 
that  time  also  to  account  for  all  moneys  received  by 
them  from  the  sale  of  the  said  work.  —  [Tdeni,  §  2. 

§  34.  The  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars  is  hereby 
appropriated  for  the  payment  of  any  expenses  grow- 
Su  er-  ^^^S  o^^  0^  ^^^®  Natural  History  of  this  State, 
vision.  to  be  paid  only  on  the  certificate  of  the 
secretary  of  State,  and  the  secretary  of  the  board  of 
regents,  who  are  hereby  authorized  and  directed  to 
take  charge  of  all  the  matters  appertaining  to  the 
compilation  and  completion  of  such  Natural  History, 
with  power  to  make  such  contracts,  limiting  the  num- 
ber of  volumes,  fixing  the  comj)ensation  and  other- 
wise, as  they  may  think  proper. —  [Latos  of  1S55,  ch. 
539,  p.  1015). 

§  35.  Eesolved /rhut  the  secretary  of  State  be  author- 
ized to  deliver  to  the  Regents  of  the  University  as  many 
11 


82  LAWS   RELATIVE   TO 

^eTihanges  ^^V^^^  ^^  such  parts  of  tho  Natural  History 
of  this  State,  not  exceeding  twenty-five,  as  he  may 
believe  will  not  interfere  with  the  claims  of  those  who 
have  already  become  possessors  of  parts  of  the  work, 
under  the  provisions  of  law,  the  same  to  be  used  in 
foreign  literary  exchanges  by  the  Kegents  for  the 
benefit  of  the  State. — [Concurrent  Resolution,  April 
15,  185T,  Session  Laws,  p.  798. 

§  36.  The  volumes  of  the  Natural  History  of  the 
State  hereafter  to  be  published,  shall,  when  sold,  be 
New  disposed  of  at  not  less  than  five  dollars  each, 

DriCG  GS" 

tabiished.  instead  of  the  price  now  fixed  by  law;  pro- 
vided, always,  that  all  colleges,  academies,  scientific 
institutions  and  library  associations,  which  own  the 
volumes  already  published,  or  the  greater  part  of  them, 
shall  have  the  right  to  complete  their  sets  on  the  terms 
heretofore  established  for  that  purpose.*  —  [Lmos  of 
1859,  ch.  395,  §  3. 

§  37.  The  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars  is  hereby 
appropriated,  to  be  paid  on  the  certificate  of  the  secre- 
Supervis-    tary  of  State  and  the  secretary  of  the  board 

*°"'  of  regents,  for  any  deficiencies  growing  out  of 

contracts  heretofore  made  by  these  officers,  or  ex- 
penses otherwise  incurred  in  the  preparation  of  the 
Natural  History  of  the  State ;  and  they  shall  have 
control  of  all  matters  concerning  the  same,  with 
power  to  continue  in  force  any  existing  contracts  or 
to  make  such  others  as  shall  hasten  the  completion 
of  the  work  ;  and  they  may  likewise  have  power  to 
publish,  in  abridged  or  epitomised  form,  any  portions 

♦  Amended  by  ch.  163  of  Laws  of  1877,  which  see. 


NATURAL   HISTORY.  83 

of  said  work,  if  in  tlieir  judgment  it  may  be  for  the 
public  advantage.  —  [Laivs  of  1868,  cli.  717,  p.  1611. 

§  38.  Memorandum  of  agreement  made  and  entered 
into  this  oth  day  of  October,  A.  D.  1871,  between  the 
People  of  the  State  of  New  York,  by  Homer  A.  Nelson, 
Contract  Secretary  of  State,  and  Samuel  B.  Wool- 
Avorth,  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Regents,  pursuant  to 
chapter  717  of  the  Laws  of  1868,  and  Charles  Van 
Benthuysen,  of  Albany,  assignee  of  two  certain  con- 
tracts hereinafter  more  particularly  specified. 

Witnesseth  :  That  owing  to  the  enhanced  cost  of 
labor  and  materials  since  their  having  been  entered 
into  the  contract  made  on  the  4th  day  of  April,  1843, 
between  the  People  of  the  State  of  New  York  by 
William  0.  Bouck,  Governor,  and  Carroll  &  Cook,  for 
the  printing  and  binding  of  the  Natural  History  of 
the  State  of  New  York,  and  the  contract  made  on  the 
27th  day  of  July,  1847,  between  the  State  of  New 
York,  by  John  Young,  Governor,  and  Richard  H. 
Pease,  for  engraving  on  stone  and  steel,  and  the  print- 
ing and  lettering  of  the  said  engravings,  are  each 
modified  in  the  provisions  therein  contained,  speci- 
fying prices,  by  an  increase  of  fifty  per  cent  in  the 
several  amounts  therein  agreed  to  be  paid,  and  it  is 
hereby  covenanted  and  agreed  that  the  said  Charles 
Van  Benthuysen  shall  be  paid  from  the  treasury  of 
the  State  of  New  York,  for  all  work  to  be  per- 
formed in  publishing  the  Natural  History,  commenc- 
ing with  volume  five.  Palaeontology,  fifty  per  cent  in 
addition  to  the  prices  specified  and  established  in  and 
by  the  two    several   contracts  hereinbefore  described. 


u; 


84  LAWS   RELATIVE  TO 

except  the  price  for  letter-press  work,  which  shall 
remain  and  continue  as  stated  in  the  original  contract. 
In  witness  whereof  the  parties  have  hereunto  sub- 
scribed their  names  and  affixed  their  seals  the  day 
and  year  first  above  written. 

H.  A.  NELSOJS",  [l.  s.] 

Secretary  of  State* 

S.  B.  WOOLWORTH,  [l.  s.] 

Secretary  of  Regents, 

OHAS.  VAN  BENTHUYSEN.     [l.  s.] 
—  lAssem,  Doc,  1879,  No.  79,  p.  10. 

§  39.  The  volumes  of  the  Natural  History  of  the 
State,  hereafter  to  be  published,  shall,  when  sold,  bo 
Price  disposed  of  at  not  less  than  two  dollars  and 

changed,  ^fj^y  cents  cach,  instead  of  the  price  now 
fixed  by  law  ;  provided,  always,  that  all  colleges, 
academies,  scientific  institutions,  and  library  associa- 
tions, which  own  the  volumes  already  published,  or 
the  greater  part  of  them,  shall  have  the  right  to  com- 
plete their  sets  on  the  terms  heretofore  established  for 
that  purpose.  And  the  conditions  applicable  to  col- 
leges, academies  and  scientific  institutions,  shall  be 
Priviiejre     extended   to  the  author  of  said  volumes  of 

to  author.  Natural  History,  who  shall  have  the  privilege 
of  purchasing  such  copies,  not  exceeding  one  hundred 
in  number,  of  any  and  every  volume,  as  he  may  need 
for  completing  any  sets  in  his  possession,  and  for  pre- 
sentation to  scientific  correspondents  and  societies. — , 
\La%t)s  of  1877,  ch.  163,  §  1. 


iq"ATURAL   HISTORY.  85 

§  40.  The  secretary  of  State  is  hereby  authorized 
and  required  to  transmit  to  the  commissioner  of  pat- 
ents of  the  United  States,  a  copy  of  the  Natural  His- 
tory of  the  State  of  New  York,  to  be  deposited  by  him 
for  preservation  in  the  patent  office  ;  also  a  copy  of 
the  same  work  to  the  trustees  of  the  Smithsonian  In- 
stitute, to  be  placed  in  its  library  ;  also  a  copy  of  the 
said  work  to  the  New- York  Historical  Society. — 
[Laivs  of  1848,  ch.  372. 


The  following  is  a  list  of  the  volumes  of  Natural  His- 
tory issued  by  the  State  of  New  York,  for  sale  by  sub- 
scribers, through  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  State, 
or  County  Treasurers,  under  chapters  149,  Laws  of 
1842;  254,  1844;  395,  1859;  and  163,  1877;  with 
dates  of  publication.  (The  figures  in  brackets  indi- 
cate the  order  of  publication.) 

ZOOLOGY. 

Part  (or  Division)  One  :  By  James  E.  DeKay. 

[1]  Part     I.  Historical  Introduction  to  the  series,  by  Gov- 
ernor Seward,  and   Mammalia,    Text  and 
Plates,  1842. 
[10]  Part   II.  Birds,  Text  and  Plates,  1844. 

[6]  Part  III.  Reptiles  and  Amphibia,  Text,  1842. 

[5]  Part  IV.  Reptiles  and  Amphibia,  Plates,  1842. 

[9]  Parts  V  and  VI  (bound  in  one  volume).  V,  Molusca, 
Text.  VI,  Crustacea,  Text  and  Plates, 
1843  and  1844. 


86  VOLUMES   OF 

BOTANY. 

Part  (or  Division)  Two  :  by  John  Torret,  M.  D.  F.  L.  S. 
[11]  Vol.    I.  Text  and  Plates,  1843. 
[12]  Vol.  II.  Text  and  Plates,  1843. 

MINERALOGY. 
Part  (or  Division)  Three  :    By  Lewis  C.  Beck,  M.  D. 
[3]  In  one  volume.     Text  and  Plates.     Part  I,    Economic 
Mineralogy;  Part  II,  Descriptive  Mineralog}-,  1842. 

GEOLOGY. 

Part  (or  Division)  Four  :  By  Professors  Mather, 

Emmons,  Vanuxem  and  Hall. 

[7]  Part     I.  First  Geological  District,  Wm.  W.  Mather, 

Text  and  Plates,  1843. 
[4]  Part   II.   Second  Geological  District,  Ebenezer  Em- 
mons, M.  D.,  Text  and  Plates,  1842. 
[2]  Part  III.  Third   Geological  District,    Lardner  Van- 
uxem, Text,  1842. 
[8]  Part  IV.  Fourth   Geological    District,    James   Hall, 
Text  and  Plates,  1843. 

AGRICULTURE. 

Part  (or  Division)  Five  :  By  Ebenezer  Emmons,  M.  D. 
[13]  Vol.     I.   Classification,  etc.,  of  Soils  and  Rocks,  Text 

and.  Plates,  184G. 
[15]  Vol.    II.  Analysis  of  Soils,  Plants,  Cereals,  etc.,  Text 

and  Plates,  1849. 
[16]  Vol.  m.  Fruits,  Text,  1851. 
[17]  Vol.  IV.  (Ill  on  title  page),  Fruits,  Plates,  1851. 
[19]  Vol.   V.  Insects  injurious  to  Agriculture,  Text  and 

Plates,  1854. 


NATURAL   HISTORY.  87 

PALAEONTOLOGY. 
Part  (or  Division)  Six  :  By  James  Hall. 

[14]  Vol.  I.  Organic  Remains  of  lower  division  of  New 
York  System,  Text  and  Plates,  1847. 

[18]  Yol.  11.  Organic  Remains  of  lower  middle  division, 
Text  and  Plates,  1852. 

[30]  Yol.  m.  In  two  parts,  Text  and  Plates. 

Part  I.  Text.  Organic  Remains  of  lower 
Ilelderberg  Group  and  Oriskany  Sand- 
stone, 1859. 

Part  IL   Plates,  1861. 

(Both  parts  delivered  to  Secretary  of  State 
as  one  volume,  in  1862.) 

[21]  Yol.  lY.  Fossil  Brachiopoda  of  Upper  Helderberg, 
Hamilton,  Portage  and  Chemung  Groups, 
etc..  Text  and  Plates.  (Imprint  of  title  page 
1867,  but  delivered  to  Secretary  of  State 
in  1870.) 

Yol.   Y.  Part  I.     (Not  yet  issued.) 

[22]  Yol.  Y.  Part  II.  Gasteropoda,  Pteropoda  and  Cepha- 
lopoda of  Upper  Helderberg,  Hamilton, 
Portage  and  Chemung  Groups,  Text  and 
Plates  (in  separate  bindings),  1879. 

Note. — Copies  of  [30],  [31]  and  [22],  only,  now  remain 
on  sale  at  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  State,  at  the  rate 
prescribed  in  chapter  163,  Laws  of  1877,  ($2.50). 


BS  VOLUMES   OF 

The  following  is  a  list  of  governments,  institutions 
and  persons  to  whom  the  Natural  History  of  Kew 
York  has  been  presented,  under  the  provisions  of 
chapter  254,  §  1,  of  the  Laws  of  1844  ;  ch.  372, 1848  ; 
€h.  396,  §  1,  1851: 

In  Great  Britain  and  its  Dependencies, 
•Queen  of  England. 
Library  of  the  House  of  Lords. 
Library  of  the  House  of  Commons. 

British  Museum. 

Royal  Society  of  London. 

Geological  Society  of  London. 

Zoological  Society  of  London. 

Royal  Agricultural  College  of  Great  Britain.* 

Manchester  Free  Library. 

Royal  Society  of  Edinburgh. 

University  of  Glasgow. 

Library  of  the  Faculty  of  Advocates,  Edinburgh. 

Royal  Irisii  Academy,  Dublin. 

Asiatic  Society,  Calcutta. 

Provincial  Parliament  of  Canada.      (Two  sets;  one  having 

been  destroyed  by  fire.) 
Government  of  Nova  Scotia. 
Library  of  the  Seminary  of  Quebec. 
Library  of  Trinity  College,  Toronto. 
Library  of  McGill  College,  Montreal.* 

In  France  (and  Algeria), 
King  (or  Emperor)  of  the  French. 
Library  of  the  Chamber  of  Peers. 
Library  of  the  Chamber  of  Deputies. 

*By  request  of  the  Regents. 


jq^ATURAL   HISTORY.  89 

Royal  Library  of  Paris, 

National  Institute  of  France. 

National  Museum  of  Natural  History. 

Geological  Society  of  France. 

Entomological  Society  of  Paris. 

Minister  of  Justice. 

Minister  of  Public  Instruction. 

Minister  of  Finance. 

Minister  of  Agriculture  and  Commerceo 

Minister  of  Marine  and  Colonies. 

Minister  of  War. 

Minister  of  the  Interior. 

Minister  of  Public  Works. 

City  of  Bordeaux. 

City  of  Marseilles. 

City  of  Rouen. 

City  of  Metz. 

City  of  Algiers. 

Alexandre  Yattemare. 

Antoine  Passy. 

Milne  Edwards. 

Prince  Charles  Bonaparte. 

In  other  Countries  of  Eiiroi^e  and  Asia, 

Emperor  of  Austria. 
King  of  Bavaria. 

National  Library  of  Munich,  Bavaria. 
King  of  Belgium. 
Royal  Academy  of  Brussels. 
King  of  Prussia. 
University  of  Berlin. 
University  of  Gottingen. 
Emperor  of  Russia. 

Imperial  Academy  of  Sciences,  St.  Petersburgli. 
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Library  of  the  Imperial  Botanic  Garden,  St.  Petersburgh. 
Queen  of  Spain.     (Two  sets ;  one  having  been  lost  by  ship- 
wreck.) 
Spanish  Government. 
Queen  of  Portugal. 
The  Pope. 

King  of  the  two  Sicilies. 
King  of  Denmark. 
King  of  Sweden. 
King  of  Saxony, 
King  of  Sardinia. 
Sultan  of  Turkey. 
King  of  the  Netherlands. 
Royal  Netherlands  Institute,  Amsterdam, 
Government  of  the  Netherlands. 
King  of  Greece. 
Diet  of  Switzerland. 

Societe  Helvetique  des  Sciences  Naturelles  de  Geneve. 
Societe  des  Sciences,  Naturelles  de  Neuchatel. 
Grand  Duke  of  Tuscany. 
Grand  Duke  of  Baden. 
Library  of  St.  Mark's,  Venice. 
Jesuits'  College  of  Home. 
Louis  Kossuth. 
Emperor  of  China. 
Emperor  of  Japan. 


In  other  Foreign   Countries* 

Government  of  Mexico. 

Emperor  of  Brazil. 

Historical  and  Geographical  Institute  of  Brazil. 

Royal  Museum  of  Rio  de  Janeiro. 

Library  of  the  Province  of  IMaranham,  Brazil. 


liTATUKAL   HISTORY.  91 

Kepublic  of  Chili. 
College  of  San  Carlos,  Chili. 
Republic  of  New  Grenada. 
Hawaiian  Government. 

In  the  United  States, 

President  of  the  United  States. 

Library  of  Congress. 

U.  S.  Commissioner  of  Patents. 

Smithsonian  Institution,  Washington. 

New  York  Historical  Society. 

IJ.  S.  Military  Academy,  West   Point.* 

James  Wadsworth,  Geneseo. 

Charles  T.  Jackson,  M.  D.,  Boston.* 

Lewis  H.  Morgan,  Rochester.* 

Library  of  the  Territory  of  Washington. 

Total  (including  two  duplicates),  100  sets. 

Under  the  provision  made  by  the  act  of  1844,  for  the 
several  States  of  the  Union,  a  set  of  the  Natural  History  has 
been  sent  to  each  State  eas£  of  the  Mississippi  river  (26), 
and  to  Arkansas,  Missouri,  Iowa,  Texas,  California;  in  all, 
31  States. 

*By  request  of  the  Regents. 


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CHAPTER  X. 

RELATIVE     TO       CERTAIN-     LOCAL        LAW     LIBRARIES 
FOUKDED    BY   THE   STATE. 

Court  of  Aj^peals^  Libraries. 

Sec.  1.  The  public  library  called  the  "  Chancellor's 
Library  of      Library"   shall    continue   to  be  a  public 

the  court  ^^  mi        -r  -i 

of  appeals,  library,  under  the  name  oi  "  ihe  Library 
of  the  Court  of  Appeals,"  and  the  judges  of  that 
court  shall,  by  an  order  entered  in  their  minutes, 
direct  the  location  of  the  same  at  some  place  west  of 
the  seat  of  government  ;  *  and,  on  suitable  and  con- 
venient rooms  and  accommodations  being  provided  in 
such  place,  the  said  judges  shall  direct  the  clerk  of 
that  court  to  remove  the  said  library  to  that  place. 
But,  before  such  removal,  Ihe  regents  of  the  univer- 
sity may,  in  their  discretion,  take  from  said  libraiy, 
and  deposit  in  the  state  library  at  Albany,  books  of 
which  copies  are  not  now  in  said  state  library. — [Laivs 
of  1849,  ch.  300,  §  1. 

§2.  Such  books  in  the  said  library  as  are  duplicates 

Duplicate      or  copics  of  Other  books  therein,  and  such 

how  to  be    others  as  the  said  judges  shall  think  proper, 

of.  shall,  under  the  like  direction,  be  located  at 

*  Under  sections  1,  2.  of  this  act.  two  libraries  of  the  Court  of  Ap- 

Eeals  were  established.  In  184H.  one  at  Syracuse  and  the  other  at 
ochester.    [Cmirt  of  Appeals'  Rough  Minutes,  vol.  1,  page  193;  Rr.gcnW 
Minutes,  vol.  5,  page  349  J 


LOCAL   LAW   LIBRARIES.  95 

any  other  place  west  of  the  seat  of  government,  which 
the  said  judges  shall  designate  ;  and,  on  suitable  and 
convenient  rooms  and  accommodations  being  pro- 
vided, such  books  shall,  in  like  manner,  be  removed 
to  that  place,  and,  on  being  so  removed,  those  books, 
and  such  others  as  shall  be  added  thereto,  shall  con- 
stitute another  public  library,  and  shall  be  the  prop- 
erty of  the  state. — [Idein,  §  2. 

§  3.  The  regents  of  the  university  shall  a2:)point  a 
Librarian  suitable  person  to  be  librarian  of  the  library 
pointed,  of  the  court  of  appeals,  and  shall  designate 
the  compensation  to  be  paid  to  him,  and  they  shall 
also  appoint  a  suitable  person  for  librarian  of  any 
other  library  which  may  be  established  under  the 
preceding  section,  and  designate  his  compensation. 
—  [Idem,  §  3. 

§  4.  The  three  law  libraries  of  the  judges  of  the 

The  law       late  Supreme  court,  and  the  library  of  the 

of  late        late  vice-chancellor  of  the  second  circuit,  are 

court^tc,  hereby  declared  to  be  for  the  use  of  the  four 

be  used,      judges  of  the  court  of  appeals  elected  by 

the  people  of  the  gtate  at  large  and  their  successors 

in  office,  and  the  clerk  of  that  court  shall  cause  to  be 

made  any  removal  of  books   necessary  to  carry  this 

section  into  effect,  and  for  the  purpose  of  enlarging 

the  library  of  the  late  vice-chancellor  of  the  second 

circuit,  and  equalizing  and  enlarging  the  four  libraries 

in  this  section  mentioned,  a  portion  of  the  interest 

fund  upon  moneys  temporarily  deposited  in  the  office 

of  the  clerk  in  chancerv  for  said  second  circuit  not 


0-i  LAWS    RELATIVE   TO 

exceeding  three  thousand  dollars  may  be  applied 
under  the  direction  of  the  said  judges.  —  \^Idem, 
§4. 

§  5.  The  clerk  of  the  court  of  appeals  shall  keep 
Clerk  of      invested  in  his  name  of  office  in  such  man- 

the  court  i     n    t 

of  appeals  ner  as  that  court  shall  direct,  a  certain  fund 

to  keep  Till  1  »    . 

certain       accumulated  by  the  way  of  interest  unon 

moneys  m       t  •      -i    •  ^ 

invested,  moucys  temporarily  deposited  in  the  court 
of  chancery,  known  as  the  chancellor's  library  fund 
and  interest  fund,  together  with  the  residue  of  the 
interest  fund  from  the  second  circuit  mentioned  in 
the  preceding  section  ;  and  the  income  of  such  fund 
for  the  year  last  past,  and  the  future  income  thereof, 
until  otherwise  provided  by  law,  may  be  expended 
under  the  direction  of  the  judges  of  the  court  of 
appeals  as  follows  :  The  expenses  of  carrying  this  act 
into  effect  shall  be  paid  therefrom,  and  also  the  com- 
pensation of  any  librarian  or  librarians  to  be  ai^pointed 
under  this  act ;  a  portion  of  said  income  not  exceed- 
ing one-fourth  part  thereof  may  be  expended  in  en- 
larging and  improving  the  four  libraries  for  the  use 
of  the  judges  mentioned  in  the  last  preceding  section, 
and  the  residue  shall  be  expended  in  enlarging  and 
improving  the  public  libraries  in  tiie  first  two  sections 
of  this  act  mentioned.  Nothing  in  this  act  contained 
shall  bring  a  charge  upon  the  treasury  of  the  state. 
—  [Idem,  §  5. 

§  6.  The  regents  of  tlie  university  shall  frame  and 
Rules  to      establish  suitable  rules  and  regulations*  for 

byreg'ts     the  usc  of  the  books  in  the  public  libraries 

*  see  page  100. 


LOCAL   LAW    LIBRARIES.  9^ 

mentioned  in  this  act,  and  sliall  add  to  and  amend 

the  same  as  shall  be  necessary. —  \_Ide7n,  §  6.] 

Law  Library  of  the  First  Judicial  District. 

§  7.  There   shall  be  a  law  library  located  in  the 

New  York    ^^^^  ^^  Ncw  York,  which  shall  be  known  as 

lawiibr'y.  ^\-^q  ]^'g^^  York  law  library;  and  the  said 

library  shall  be  under  the  care  and  management  of 

the  justices  of  the  supreme  court  of  the  first  judicial 

district,    who   shall   be   the   trustees   thereof.     The 

Regents       trustees  of  the  state  library  are  hereby  au- 

ized  to       thorized   to   place   in    the    library   hereby 

pifcate       founded,  any  duplicate  of   books  in  their 

books  .  1  •   1     J 1  T 

therein,      possession  which  they  may  deem  proper. — 
[Laws  0/1865,  ch.  722,  §§  1,  2,  3. 

Law  Library  of  the  Second  Judicial  District. 
§  8.  There  shall  be  a  law  library  located  at  the  city 
Law  li-        of  Brooklyn,  which  shall  be  known  as  the 
second  ju-  law  library  of  the  second  judicial  district, 
trict.  The  said  library  shall  be  under  the  care  and 

management  of  the  trustees  of  the  law  library  of  the 
city  of  Brooklyn,  subject,  however,  to  such  orders, 
rules  and  regulations  touching  the  same,  as  may  be 
made  from  time  to  time  by  a  majority  of  tlie  justices 
of  the  supreme  court  residing  in  said  district.  The 
Shall  report  trustees  thereof  shall  yearly  make  a  report 
regents,  to  the  regents  of  the  university  of  the  addi- 
tions made  to  said  library  during  the  preceding  year. 
—[Laws  of  1863,  ch.  463,  §§  1,  2. 

Law  Libraries  of  the  Third  Judicial  District. 
Chapter  323  of   the  Laws  of  1874,  provides  for  the 


06  LAWS   RELATIVE  TO 

establishment  of  a  judicial  district  library  for  the 
third  judicial  district,  to  be  located  at  Kingston, 
Ulster  county. 

The  State  Library  is  located  in  this  district. 

Law  Library  of  the  Fourth  Judicial  District. 
§  9.  There  shall   be  a  law  library  for  the  fourth 
Lavvij-        judicial  district  located  at  such  place  as  a 
fourth  ju-  maiority  of  the  justices  of  said  district  shall 

dicialdis-  .    /      1  .   ,       1     11    ,       ,  .1        1 

trict.  appoint,  which  shall  be  known  as  the  law 
library  of  the  fourth  judicial  district  ;  and  until  the 
majority  of  said  justices  shall  otherwise  determine,  it 
shall  be  located  in  the  city  of  Schenectady.  The 
justices  of  the  supreme  court  of  the  fourth  judicial 
district,  for  the  time  being,  shall  be  ex  officio  trustees 
of  the  said  law  library,  and  the  same  shall  be  under 
the  care  and  management  of  the  said  trustees. — {^Laius 
of  1866,  ch.  882,  §§  1,  2. 

§  10.  The  trustees  of  said  library  shall  report  an- 
shaiian-      "ually  to  the  trustees  of  the  state  library 

nuaiiy  re-  the  cataloo^uc  of  books  in  the  said   library, 

port  to  o  J ' 

regents,  ^nd  the  state  and  condition  thereof.  The 
Repents       trustees  of  the  state  library  are  hereby  au- 

author-  -^  -^ 

ized  to       thorized    to   place    in   the   library  hereby 
plicate       founded,  any  duplicates  of  books  in  their 
therein,      posscssion  uot  needed  in  the  state  library. 
—[Idem,  §  3. 

Law  Libraries  of  the  Fifth  Judicial  District. 
Chapter  193  of    the  Laws  of    1875,  provides  for 
the    establishment  of   a  law  library  to    be  located 


ADDITIONAL   LAW   LIBRARIES.  97 

at  Utica,  Oneida  county,  for  the  use  of  the  supreme 
court. 

The  Court  of  Appeals'  Library  at  Syracuse  is  in 
this  district. 

Law  Libraries  of  the  Sixth  Judicial  District. 

Chapter  230  of  the  Laws  of  1859,  provides  for  the 
establishment  of  a  law  library  in  the  sixth  judicial 
district,  to  be  located  at  Binghamton,  under  the  care 
of  the  justices  of  the  said  district  and  the  supervisors 
of  Broome  county.  The  legislature  has,  from  time 
to  time,  made  appropriations  for  the  benefit  of  such 
library,  but  has  not  required  annual  reports  of  its 
condition  to  be  made,  other  than  to  the  supervisors 
aforesaid. 

Chapter  193  of  Laws  of  1875,  provides  for  the 
establishment  of  a  law  library,  to  be  located  at 
Delhi,  Delaware  county,  for  the  use  of  the  supreme 
court. 

Law  Library  of  the  Seventh  Judicial  District. 
The  Court  of  Appeals'  Library  at  Rochester  is  in 
this  district. 

Law  Library  of  the  Eighth  Judicial  District. 

§  11.  There  shall  be  a  law  library  located  at  the 

Law  library  ^ity  of  Buffalo,  whicli  shall   be  known  as 

.i'udS^    the  law  library  of  the  eighth  judicial   dis- 

district.     ^rj(3|.^     rpj^g  g^-^  library  shall  be  under  the 

care  and  management  of  the  trustees  of  the  Grosve- 

nor  library,  subject,  however,  to  such  orders,  rules 

and  regulations  touching  the  same,  as  may  be  made 

13 


98  LAWS   RELATIVE  TO 

from  time  to  time  by  a  majority  of  the  justices  of 
the  supreme  court  residing  in  said  district.  The 
Shall  report  trustees  thereof  shall  yearly  make  a  report 
regents,  to  the  rcgcuts  of  the  university  of  the  state 
of  said  library.— [i:«?(;A'  of  18G3,  ch.  401,  §§  1,  2. 

§  12.  The  trustees  of  the  state  library  are  hereby 
Regents       authorized  to  place  in  the  library  hereby 

author-  t       i.      ,  i.    -i       i        '       j.i.    • 

izedto       founded   any  duplicates  of  books  in  their 

place  du-  .  ,  .   i      ,  i  j 

plicate       possession  wliich  they  mav  deem  proper. — 

books  o  o  1 

therein        [/aem,  §  3.J 

Rules  and  Regulations  estallished  by  the  Regents, 
Sept.  20,  1849,  for  the  Libraries  of  the  Court  of 
Appeals  at  Syracuse  and  Rochester, 

1.  It  shall  be  the  earliest  duty  of  the  Librarian  to  pre- 
pare a  catalogue  of  the  books  in  the  Library,  as  delivered 
to  him  l^y  the  Clerk  of  the  court,  in  alpliabetical  order,  and 
in  proper  form  for  reference  in  the  Library  :  a  copy  of  the 
said  catalogue  shall  without  delay  be  forwarded  to  the  Sec- 
retary of  the  Regents  of  the  University,  and  another  placed 
at  the  disposition  of  the  Court  of  Appeals. 

2.  The  Librarian  shall  also  keep  lists  of  all  books  subse- 
quently added,  and  make  annual  returns  of  the  same,  on  or 
about  the  fifteenth  of  December,  to  the  Regents  and  the 
Court  of  Appeals,  as  aforesaid. 

3.  During  the  sessions  of  the  Court  of  Appeals,  the  Su- 
preme Court  and  the  Circuit  Court,  at  the  city  of  Syracuse, 
the  Library  shall  be  kept  open  from  9  a.  m.  to  9  p.  m.,  with 
the  exception  of  two  hours  for  meals,  and  which  shall  con- 
form, as  nearly  as  may  be,  to  the  houi-s  of  the  adjournment 
of  the  respective  courts. 


RULES    AND    REGULATIONS.  99 

4.  At  all  other  times,  except  Sundays  and  the  usual  holi- 
days, the  Library  shall  be  open  from  9  a,  m.  to  5  p.  m, 

5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Librarian  to  keep  the  rooms 
in  order,  and  to  prevent  injury  to  the  books,  and  to  allow 
none  of  them  to  be  taken  from  the  Library,  except  as  next 
specified. 

6.  During  the  sessions  of  the  courts  named  above,  the 
books  may  be  taken  by  the  judges  and  members  of  the  bar 
into  court.  The  Librarian  shall  before  delivery  charge  the 
person  or  persons  so  taking  any  of  tliem  in  a  book  to  be 
provided  for  that  purpose,  and  all  books  so  taken  shall  be 
returned  on  the  same  day.  Any  infraction  of  this  rule  should 
be  reported  to  the  court. 

7.  In  case  of  the  loss  of  or  injury  to  any  book  or  books, 
the  value  of  the  same  should  be  estimated  by  the  Librarian, 
and  payment  required  from  the  person  or  persons  who  have 
occasioned  such  loss  or  injury :  any  refusal  of  payment  as 
demanded  should  also  be  reported  as  above. 

8.  The  Library  shall  be  annually  examined  and  compared 
with  the  certified  copies  of  the  catalogues  above  directed, 
by  such  person  or  persons  as  may  from  time  to  time  be  ap- 
pointed, and  who  shall  make  reports  of  such  examinations 
to  the  Regents  and  the  Court  of  Appeals. 

9.  The  object  of  the  Regents  in  making  these  brief  rules 
and  regulations,  is  to  preserve  the  collection  of  books,  and 
to  render  the  Library  equally  available  to  all  who  are  desir- 
ous of  consulting  it.  They  therefore  rely  on  the  cheerful 
assent  and  concurrence  of  the  Bar. 

10.  Should  any  additional  regulations  be  considered  ne- 
cessary, the  Regents  trust  that  the  Judges  of  the  Court  of 
Appeals,  or  any  gentleman  feeling  an  interest  in  the  subject, 
will  favor  them  with  the  necessary  suggestions. 

A  copy  of  these  rules  and  regulations  shall  be  placed 
in  some  conspicuous  part  of  the  Library. — [Megents^  Min- 
utes (MS.),  V,  351. 


100  LAWS   RELATIVE   TO 


CHAPTER  XI. 

IN    REGARD   TO  CERTAIN  PUBLIC  PAPERS  AND  RECORDS. 

Sec.  1.  The  manuscript  or  printed  papers  of  the 
Ms.  papera  legislature,  usually  termed  '*on  file,"  and 
charge  of  which  have  been  on  file  for  a  longer  period 
regents,  than  five  years,  in  the  custody  of  the  clerks 
of  the  senate  and  assembly,  and  all  other  public  re- 
cords of  the  state,  not  in  the  custody  of  some  public 
officer,  shall  hereafter  be  placed  in  charge  of  the 
regents  of  the  university. — [^Laws  of  1859,  ch.  321, 

§  2.  This  act  shall  not   be  construed  to  cause  the 

No  papers    i^moval  of  the  documents  on  record  in  the 

fron^Itate  office  of  the  secretary  of  slate  or  in  the  cus- 

offlcers.      ^Q(3y.  Qf  either  of  the  state  officers. — [Idem, 

§2.] 

§  3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  trustees  of  the  cap- 
Dntyof       itol  to  assign  and  suitably  arrange  the  room 

trust6CB 

of  capitoi.  formerly  in  the  use  of  the  judges  of  the 
court  of  appeals,  and  any  other  rooms  which  may  be 
needed  and  can  be  spared  for  the  purposes  of  this  act. 
—[Idem,  §  3.] 

§  4.  The  regents  of  the  university  shall  have  the 
Repents  to   sole  charge  and  custody  of  the  records  and 

charge.  papers  mentioned  in  the  first  section  of  this 
act,  and  no  paper  shall  be  removed  from  the  files  in 


PUBLIC  PAPERS  Ais'D  RECORDS.  101 

their  custody,  or  in  the  charge  of  the  clerks  of  either 
house,  except  on  a  resohition  of  the  senate  and  assem- 
bly ;  withdrawing  the  same  for  a  temporary  purpose, 
and  in  case  of  such  removal,  a  description  of  the 
paper,  and  the  name  of  the  officer  or  person  receiving 
the  same  shall  bo  entered  in  a  book  to  be  provided 
for  the  purpose,  with  the  date  of  its  delivery  and 
return.  Nothing  contained  in  this  act  shall  be  con- 
strued to  prevent  the  clerk  of  the  senate  or  assembly, 
or  a  deputy  appointed  by  either  of  them  for  that 
purpose,  from  having  access  to  any  papers  of  the  senate 
or  assembly  respectively,  for  the  purpose  of  taking  cop- 
ies of  the  same,  as  hereinafter  provided.  —  [^Idem,  §  4. 
§  5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  regents  of  the  nni- 
Duty  of  versity,  and  of  the  clerks  of  the  senate  and 
and  clerks  assembly  respectively,  to  cause  all  papers 
houses.  in  their  charge  to  be  so  classified  and  ar- 
ranged that  they  can  be  easily  found. — [^Idem,  §  5. 
§  6.  No  paper  shall  be  withdrawn  from  the  files  of 
Certified  the  Senate  or  assembly  except  temporarily, 
papers.  as  is  provided  for  in  section  four  of  this  act, 
wliether  the  same  is  in  the  charge  of  the  regents,  or 
of  the  clerks  of  either  house,  but  every  person  apply- 
ing therefor  to  the  clerk  of  the  senate  or  assembly 
shall  be  entitled  to  receive  a  certified  copy  of  any 
petition,  memorial,  remonstrance,  resolution,  affida- 
vit, report  or  other  paper  of  any  kind  on  said  files 
upon  payment  to  said  clerk  for  such  copy  and  certifi- 
cate, for  his  own  use,  the  same  fees  which  are  by  law 
Fees.  charged  by  the  secretary  of  state  for  en- 


102     LAWS   RELATIVE    TO    CERTAIN   PAPERS,    ETC. 


grossing  and  certifying  exemplifications  of  records 
deposited  in  his  office.  A  copy  of  any  paper  on  the 
Copiep  to    files  of  the  senate,  certified  by  the  clerk  of 

dence,  etc.  the  Senate,  with  his  seal  of  office  attached, 
or  a  copy  of  any  paper  on  the  files  of  the  assembly, 
certified  by  the  clerk  of  the  assembly,  with  his  seal 
of  office  attached,  may  be  read  and  shall  be  received 
in  evidence  in  any  of  the  courts  of  this  state,  or  be- 
fore the  canal  commissioners,  the  canal  appraisers,  or 
before  any  state  officer  or  other  authority  in  like 
manner,  and  with  the  same  effect  as  if  the  original 
Avas  produced.  The  clerks  of  the  senate  and  assem- 
bly respectively  shall  forthwith  procure  a  suitable 
seal  and  press  for  the  purposes  of  this  act,  and  shall 
each  deposit  a  certified  copy  of  such  seal  in  the  office 
of  the  secretary  of  state — [Idem,  §  6.] 

§  7.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  joint  library  com- 
Duty  of  niittee  of  the  legislature,  annually,  to  exam- 
ffrVcom-  i"*^  3-nd  report  to  the  legislature,  the  condition 

mittee.  ^f  ^\^q  public  records  in  the  custody  either 
of  the  clerks  of  the  senate  or  assembly,  of  the  re- 
gents, of  the  secretary  of  state,  and  all  other  state 
officers  in  the  city  of  Albany,  and  particularly  whether 
section  five  of  this  act  is  faithfully  observed ;  and 
the  regents  of  the  university  shall  report  to  the  legis- 
lature, at  the  commencement  of  every  session,  a  list 
of  all  papers  taken  from  their  custody  in  accordance 
with  section  four  of  this  act  which  have  not  been 
returned,  with  the  date  of  their  withdrawal,  and  the 
name  of  the  officer  receiving  the  same. — [/iiem,  §  7.] 


OEDINANCES INCORPOKATION  OF  COLLEGES.  103 

PAI^T  II. 

OEDINAIsrCES  OF  THE  EEGENTS. 
CHAPTER  XII. 

INCORPORATION    OF    COLLEGES. 

Sec.  1.  When  any  application  is  or  shall  be  made  to 
the  regents  for  the  incorporation  of  a  college  under  the 
6th  section  of  the  act  of  the  legislature,  passed  the  5th 
day  of  April,  1813,  entitled  "An  act  relating  to  the 
University"  (or  chap,  184  q/*  the  lams  of  1853,  enti- 
tled "An  act  relative  to  the  incorporation  of  colleges 
and  academies"),  the  applicants  will  be  required  to 
satisfy  the  regents  that  suitable  buildings  for  the  use 
of  the  college  will  be  provided,  and  that  funds  to  the 
amount  of  one  hundred  thousand  dollars^  with  which 
it  is  intended  to  found  and  provide  for  such  college, 
have  been  paid  or  secured  to  be  paid"  by  valid  sub- 
scriptions of  responsible  parties  or  otherwise. 

§  2,  And  in  case  the  regents  shall  approve  of  said 
application,  and  the  amount  aforesaid  shall  not  be  in- 
vested for  the  use  of  said  college,  either  in  bonds  and 
mortgages  on  unincumbered  lands  within  this  state, 
worth  at  least  double  the  amount  so  secured  therein, 
or  in  stocks  of  this  state  or  the  United  States,  at 
their  market  value  at  the  time  of  the  investment,  or 
in  the  bonds  or  certificates  of  stocks  legally  issued 


104  ORDINANCES  RELATIVE  TO 

by  some  incorporated  city  of  this  state,  at  the  par 
value,  or  in  any  one  or  more  of  the  securities  above 
enumerated,  a  charter  shall  be  granted  for  the  incor- 
poration of  such  college,  for  a  term  of  five  years, 
with  a  condition  or  proviso  therein,  that  if  within 
the  said  term  of  five  years,  the  trustees  of  said  col- 
lege shall  present  to  the  regents  satisfactory  evidence 
that  they  have  invested  for  the  use  of  said  college, 
funds  amounting  to  not  less  than  one  hundred  thou- 
sand dollars,  in  the  manner  herein  before  mentioned, 
the  charter  shall  be  perpetual. — [  Ordinance  of  Jan, 
0,  1851.] 


INCORPORATION    OF   ACADEMIES.  10( 


CHAPTER  XIII. 

INCORPORATION  OF  ACADEMIES. 

[Academies  are  incorporated :  1.  With  absolute 
charters.  2.  With  provisional  charters  founded  on 
endowments  by  donation.  3.  With  provisional  char- 
ters founded  on  joint  stock.  The  requirements  for 
an  absolute  charter  are  an  academy  lot  and  building 
of  the  value  of  at  least  two  thousand  dollars.  A 
library  of  the  value  of  at  least  one  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars.  A  philosophical  apparatus  of  the  value  of 
at  least  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars.  The  require- 
ments for  a  provisional  charter  are  a  good  and  valid 
subscription  to  the  amount  of  at  least  two  thousand 
and  five  hundred  dollars.  A  provisional  charter  will 
be  declared  absolute  whenever  it  shall  appear  that  a 
suitable  building  has  been  erected  and  a  philosophical 
apparatus  and  library  have  been  procured,  and  a 
school  properly  organized.] 

Sec  1 .  No  academy  will  be  received  under  the  visi- 
tation of  the  regents,  so  as  to  entitle  it  to  share  in 
the  distribution  of  the  funds  granted  to  academics, 
unless  it  appears  that  the  academy  lot  and  buildings, 
and  the  library  and  philosophical  apparatus  which  it 
may  own,  have  been  fully  paid  for;  or  unless  it  ap- 
pears that  such  lot  and  buildings,  library  and  appa- 
ratus, are  of  the  value  of  five  thousand  dollars  or 
14 


lOG  ORDINANCES  RELATIVE  TO 

upwards,  and  that  the  debts  of  such  academy  do  not 
exceed  one-third  of  the  amount  of  the  value  thereof; 
and  in  such  case  it  may  be  so  received,  but  only  on 
condition  that  it  shall  annually  thereafter  pay  the 
interest  of  such  debt,  and  at  least  five  per  cent  of 
the  principal  thereof,  until  such  debt  be  wholly  paid 
and  extinguished ;  and  that  on  the  omission  of  any 
such  annual  payment  of  interest  and  principal,  or 
any  part  thereof,  it  shall,  during  such  omission,  cease 
to  have  any  claim  to  share  in  the  distribution  of  such 
funds.  Nor  will  the  regents  incorporate  any  academy 
unless  it  appears  that  the  academy  lot  and  buildings, 
and  the  library  and  philosophical  apparatus  have 
been  fully  paid  for,  unless  the  value  of  such  lot,  build- 
ings, library  and  philosophical  apparatus  shall  be  five 
thousand  dollars  or  upwards,  and  the  amount  of  the 
debts  of  such  academy  shall  not  exceed  one-third  of 
such  value ;  and  in  any  such  case  the  charter  will  be 
granted  only  on  the  condition  tliat  the  interest  upon, 
and  at  least  five  per  cent  of  the  principal  of  its  debts, 
shall  be  paid  annually  until  the  whole  debt  be  paid 
and  extinguished  ;  and  that  any  omission  to  make  any 
such  annual  payment  of  interest  and  principal  shall, 
in  the  discretion  of  the  regents,  bar  it  of  all  right  to 
participate  in  the  distribution  of  said  fund.  All  acad- 
emies heretofore  provisionally  chartered  upon  condi- 
tion that  they  should  not  be  entitled  to  share  in  the 
distribution  of  the  fund  granted  to  academies  until 
their  debts  should  be  fully  paid,  upon  due  proof 
bringing  them  within  these  provisions,  may  have  the 


IXCORPOKATION  OF  ACADEMIES.        lOT 

full  benefit  thereof,  in  the  same  manner,  and  to  the 
same  extent,  as  though  their  charters  were  upon 
the  conditions  hereinbefore  prescribed,  and  their 
charters  shall  be  taken,  and  are  hereby  declared  to 
be  amended  accordingly. — [07'di7iance  of  Jan.  15, 
1857.] 

§  2.  Every  application  to  the  regents  of  the  uni- 
versity for  an  absolute  charter  for  the  incorporation 
of  an  academy  founded  on  the  endowment  of  property 
already  possessed  by  the  applicants,  and  every  appli- 
cation of  an  academy,  incorporated  by  the  legislature, 
to  become  subject  to  the  visitation  of  the  regents, 
shall  set  forth,  with  all  practicable  precision,  and  in 
such  form  as  is  or  shall  be  prescribed  by  the  regents, 
a  particular  statement  showing  — 

1st.  The  extent,  general  description,  title  and  value 
of  the  ground  on  which  the  academy  edifice  is  erected, 
or  which  is  used  for  its  accomodation  at  the  time  of 
making  such  application. 

2d.  The  dimensions,  general  description,  and  value 
of  the  buildings  erected  on  such  ground  for  the  use 
or  accommodation  of  such  academy,  at  the  time  last 
aforesaid. 

3d.  An  inventory  or  catalogue  of  all  the  books  and 
articles  of  philosophical  or  other  apparatus  belonging 
to  such  academy,  with  a  just  and  fair  estimate  of  their 
value,  at  the  time  last  above  referred  to. 

4th.  A  particular  statement  of  all  incumbrances  on 
such  academic  property,  or  on  any  part  thereof,  at  the 
time  last  above  mentioned  —  it  beins:  the  intention 


108  ORDINANCES  RELATIVE  TO 

of  the  regents  to  require  every  academy  subject  to 
their  visitation,  to  own  and  possess  such  property  to 
the  value  of  at  least  two  thousand  five  hundred  dol- 
lars, over  and  above  all  incumbrances  thereon,  as  a 
condition  on  which  such  academy  will  be  allowed  to 
receive  a  distributive  share  of  the  moneys  belonging 
to  the  literature  fund. 

§  3.  And  to  the  end  that  the  regents  may  be  the 
better  enabled  to  ascertain  the  true  value  of  such 
academic  grounds,  buildings  and  apparatus,  at  the 
time  of  making  such  application,  the  said  statements 
shall  also  set  forth  and  show,  when  and  how  the  title 
to  such  ground,  library  and  apparatus  was  first  ac- 
quired, and  if  acquired  by  purchase,  what  the  original 
or  first  cost  thereof  was ;  and  also,  when  such  build- 
ings were  erected,  enlarged  or  otherwise  improved, 
of  what  materials  they  are  constructed,  with  the 
original  or  first  cost  of  such  buildings  or  improve- 
ments; also  the  state  or  condition  of  such  academic 
property,  at  the  time  of  making  such  report  or  appli- 
cation, in  respect  to  its  repair  or  fitness  for  use ;  and 
if  the  same  be  not  in  good  repair,  wherein,  and  how 
long  it  has  been  out  of  repair,  and  the  probable  cost 
of  putting  it  in  good  repair,  together  with  such  other 
matters  as  may  be  found  to  influence  in  any  respect 
the  value  of  such  property.  That  it  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  trustees  of  every  such  academy,  previous  to 
making  their  said  application  as  required  by  this  ordi- 
nance, to  submit  the  evidences  of  their  title  to  the 
ground  occupied  for  their  academic  buildings,  to  some 


IXCORPORATION  OF  ACADEMIES.        109 

person  of  the  degree  of  counselor  at  law  in  the  su- 
preme court*,  for  his  examination  and  to  obtain  from 
him  a  certificate  in  writing,  stating  his  examination 
of  the  title  submitted  to  him,  with  his  opinion  as  to 
the  nature  and  validity  of  such  title,  and  stating, 
also,  that  he  has  caused  the  ordinary  searches  to  be 
made  for  incumbrances  on  such  property,  with  the 
result  of  such  searches ;  which  said  certificate  shall 
be  transmitted  by  the  said  trustees,  together  with 
their  said  application,  to  the  said  regents. — [1853, 
Oct.  20.] 

§  4.  Any  college,  academy,  or  institution  of  learn- 
ing, desirous  of  obtaining  amendments  to,  or  altera- 
tions in  its  charter,  shall  give  notice  of  its  intended 
application  to  the  regents  for  the  same  at  least  six  v 
weeks  successively,  immediately  before  said  applica- 
tion is  presented,  in  a  newspaper  published  at  or  near 
the  city,  town  or  village  in  which  said  college,  acade- 
my or  institution  of  learning  may  be  situated,  and  in 
the  state  paper.  Duly  authenticated  proof  of  said 
publication  shall  be  filed  with  the  regents  of  the  uni- 
versity.— [1853,  June  10.] 

Forms  of  application  to  the  Regents  op  the 
University  for  the  incorporation  of  an 
Academy. 

I.  For  incorporation  with  an  absolute  charter  when 
the  ground  has  been  procured,  the  buildings  erect- 
ed and  library  and  apparatus  provided. 


y 


110  ORDINANCES    RELATIVE    TO 

To  ihe  Regents  of  the  UniversUy  of  the  State  of  New  York: 

'  The  application  of  the  subscribers,  inhabitants  of 

,  in  the  county  of  , 

Respectfully  represents : 

That  being  desirous  to  found  an  academy  at 
in  the  county  of  '  ,  they  have,  for  that  purpose 

(together  with  others,  if  the  fact  be  so),  procured  a 
suitable  lot,  erected  a  suitable  building  thereon,  and 
supplied  it  with  a  suitable  library  and  apparatus,  for 
the  accommodation  of  such  academv  as  will  appear 
by  the  following  description : 

1.  Ground  for  Academy  Buildings. 

The  lot  of  ground  on  which  the  buildings  of  said 
academy  stand,  or  which  is  to  be  used  for  its  accom- 
modation, consists  of  [here  state  the  quantity,  either 
in  acres  or  parts  of  acres,  or  the  number  of  feet  in 
breadth  and  depth.]  The  lot  of  ground  was  pur- 
chased in  the  year  ,  for  %  ;  or  it  was  given 
to  the  academy  in  the  year  [as  the  case  may  be.] 
There  were  then  no  improvements  on  it  [or  if  there 
were  any,  describe  them  ;  state  the  title  to  the  ground, 
whether  in  perpetuity,  or  for  a  term  of  years,  and  if  it 
be  subject  to  a  ground  rent,  state  amount,  etc.  Give 
a  general  description  of  all  improvements  (except 
buildings)  made  on  it.  After  giving  all  such  and 
similar  data  on  which  estimates  of  value  depend, 
state  tlie  present  value  of  tlie  ground,  including 
fences,  ornamental  trees,  and  all  other  improvements, 
except  buildings.] 

2.  Academy  Buildings. 

The  buildings  erected  on  the  ground  above  de- 
scribed, and  to  be  used  for  the  accommodation  of  the 
academy,  consist  of  [here  describe  the  principal 
buildings,  with  their  dimensions ;  state  when  and  of 


INCOEPORATIOX    OF   ACADEMIES. 


Ill 


what  materials  they  were  originally  built,  or  have 
been  since  enlarged  or  improved  ;  give  a  general  de- 
scription of  their  internal  divisions,  fitness  or  con- 
venience for  use,  etc.,  with  a  statement  of  the  original 
or  first  cost  of  the  buildings,  and  of  all  additions  or 
improvements  thereto,  so  far  as  the  same  can  be  as- 
certained. Then  state  their  present  condition  as  to 
their  being  in  or  out  of  repair,  and  if  out  of  repair, 
what  will  be  the  probable  cost  of  putting  them  in 
good  repair.  After  giving  all  such  and  similar  data 
on  which  estimates  of  value  depend,  state  the  present 
actual  value  of  such  buildings.] 

3.  Academy  Libraky. 

The  following  is  a  catalogue  of  all  the  books  be- 
longing to  said  proposed  academy,  with  the  original 
or  first  cost  (so  far  as  it  can  be  ascertained),  and  the 
present  value  of  each  book.  [Proceed  with  the  cat- 
alogue in  the  following  form]  : 


Titles  or  names  of  books  arranged  ac- 
cording to  catalogue. 

Number  of 
volumes. 

Original 
cost. 

Present 
value. 

$ 

$ 

Total  of  each  following  column, .... 

$ 

$ 

Give  a  general  description  of  the  condition  of  the 
books  in  the  library  in  respect  to  their  being  new  or 
old,  in  good  order  or  worn,  etc. 

4.  Philosophical  Apparatus. 

The  following  is  an  inventory  of  all  the  articles  of 
philosophical  or  other  apparatus  at  the  date  of  this 
application  with  the  original  or  first  cost  (so  far  as 
can  be  ascertained),  and  the  present  value  of  each 


112 


ORDINANCES    RELATIVE    TO 


article  ;  [here  proceed  with  the  inventory,  including 
in  it,  besides  what  is  strictly  and  technically  philo- 
sophical and  chemical  apparatus,  all  instruments  used 
in,  or  illustrative  of  any  of  the  arts  or  sciences,  and 
any  collection  in  geology  and  mineralogy,  and  in  nat- 
ural history.] 


Description  or  name  of  each  article. 

Original  cost. 

Present  value. 

$ 

$ 

Total  of  each  following  column, 

$ 

$ 

Give  a  general  description  of  the  condition  of  the 
apparatus  in  respect  to  its  being  new  or  old,  in  good 
order  or  injured,  etc. 

5.  Title  of  Property,  Incumbrances,  etc. 

The  evidences  of  title  to  the  property  described  in 
the  preceding  sections  of  this  report,  have  been  sub- 
mitted to  ,  of  ,  who  is  a  counselor  at  law 
in  the  supreme  court,  whose  certificate  in  writing,  as 
to  the  nature  and  validity  of  said  title,  accompanies 
this  report.*  The  said  property  is  free  from  all  in 
cumbrances  [if  such  be  the  case,  or  if  there  be  any 
incumbrances  on  it,  state  the  general  amount  of  them, 
and  refer  to  certificate  of  said  counsel  for  particulars, 
etc.] 

6.  Other  Academic  Property. 

The  property  of  the  proposed  academy,  other  than 
the   academy  lot,  buildings,  library  and  apparatus 


♦  The  certificate  of  counsel  mu^t  state  his  examination  of  the  title 
•nbmltted  to  him,  with  his  opinion  as  to  the  nature  and  validity  of  such 
title,  and  also,  that  he  has  caused  the  ordinary  searches  to  be  made  for 
incumbrances  on  such  property,  with  the  result  of  such  searches. 


INCORPORATION    OF   ACADEMIES.  113 

above  described,  consists  of  [here  describe  the  prop- 
erty in  the  most  general  terms,  such  as  the  following]: 

Bonds  and  mortgages,  notes  and  subscriptions,  con- 
sidered good $ 

Real  estate,  consisting  of 

Total $ 

7.  Debts. 

The  debts  contracted  on  account  of  the  acade- 
my now  asked  to  be  incorporated,  and  which 
remain  unpaid  at  the  date  of  this  applica- 
tion, amount  to I 

Net  value  of  property $ 

8.  Summary  Statements. 

The  total  value  of  all  the  academic  property  above 
described,  is  as  follows : 

Yalue  of  lot  for  academy  buildings $ 

Value  of  buildings  thereon 

Value  of  library 

Value  of  philosophical  apparatus 

Total  value  of  lot,  buildings,  library  and 

apparatus I 

Deduct  for  incumbrances  and  debts,  if  any, 

thereon 

Balance  of  value  over  and  above  all  incum- 
brances and  debts $ 

Add  for  other  academic  property 

Total  net  value  of  property $ 

15 


114  ORDINANCES   RELATIVE  TO 

And  the  said  subscribers  further  represent,  that 
they  have  contributed  more  than  one-half  in  value  of 
the  property  collected  for  the  use  of  said  academy, 
as  herein  before  set  forth ;  that  they  are  desirous  to 
have  the  said  academy  incorporated,*  by  the  name  of 
[here  state  the  name,  which  it  is  desirable  should  be 
descriptive  of  the  place  where  the  academy  is] ;  and 
to  that  end  they  hereby  nominate,  as  the  first  trustees 
of  said  academy,  [give  christian  names  in  full]  : 

The  said  subscribers  do  therefore  hereby  make  ap- 
plication to  the  regents  of  the  university  for  the  incor- 
poration of  the  persons  above  nominated  as  the  first 
trustees  of  said  academy  by  the  name  above  specified. 
[Here  follow  the  signatures  of  the  subscribers,  which 
must  be  in  their  own  handwriting.] 

Authentication  of  Application. 
The  preceding  application  was  submitted  to  a  meet- 
ing of  the  subscribers  held  by  them  on  the 
day  of  ,  at  which  meeting  the  following 

named  persons  were  present  [state  names],  and  hav- 
ing been  read  and  approved,  it  was  duly  adopted  as 
the  application  of  said  meeting,  and  ordered  (after 
being  verified  by  the  oath  of  the  chairman  or  presid- 
ing officer)  to  be  transmitted  to  the  regents  of  the 
university,  pursuant  to  their  ordinance  in  such  case 
made  and  provided.  All  of  which  is  hereby  done  in 
obedience  to  said  order  this  day  of 

rSigned)  A.  B., 

Chairman  or  Presiding  Officer, 

Affidavit  above  referred  to. 
State  of  New  York,  ) 
County  of  j  ^^' ' 

A.  B.,  being  duly  sworn  (or  affirmed,  as  the  case 

*  If  the  charter  is  to  be  founded  on  capital  stock,  insert  the  words. 
**  with  a  capital  stock  to  be  divided  into        shares,  of       dollars  eacli.  '* 


INCORPORATION   OP  ACADEMIES.  215 

may  be),  cleposetli  and  saith,  that  he  was  the  chairman 
or  "presiding  officer  of  the  meeting,  held  as  above 
stated,  of  contributors  to  the  proposed  academy; 
that  he  is  acquainted  with  the  contents  of  said  appli- 
cation, and  that  the  statement  of  facts  therein  set 
forth  is  in  all  respects  true  to  the  best  of  his  knowl- 
edge, information  and  belief 

(Signed)  A.  B. 

Subscribed  and  sworn  before  me,  } 

this  day  of  18     .  y 

Form   of    Charter   granted   on   the    preceding 
Application. 

University  of  the  State  of  New  York. 

By  the  Regents  of  the  University  of  the  State  of  New 
York: 

Whereas,  and  others,  by  an  instrument 

in  writing  under  their  hands,  bearing  date  the 
day  of  in  the  year  18     ,  after  stating  that 

they  had  contributed  more  than  one-half  in  value  of 
the  real  and  personal  property  and  estate  collected 
or  appropriated  for  the  use  and  benefit  of  the  Acade- 
my erected  at  the  of  ,  in  the  county 
of  ,  did  make  application  to  us  the  said 
Regents,  in  the  form  and  manner  required  by  law, 
and  by  the  ordinances  of  us  the  said  Regents  in  that 
behalf,  that  the  said  Academy  might  be  incorporated 
by  the  name  of  ,  and  that 
might  be  the  first  trustees  of  the  said  Academy,  and 
it  having  been  made  to  appear  to  our  satisfaction, 
that  the  said  academy  is  endowed  with  suitable  acade- 
mic buildings,  library  and  philosophical  apparatus  of 
the  value  of  at  least  two  thousand  five  hundred  dol- 
lars, and  conceiving  the  said  academy  calculated  for 
the  promotion  of  literature,  We  the  said  Regents  do, 
by  these  presents,  pursuant  to  the  Statute  in  such 


116  ORDINANCES  RELATIVE  TO 

case  made  and  provided,  signify  our  approbation  of 
the  incorporation  of  the  trustees  of  the  said  academy, 
by  the  aforesaid  name  of  ,  and  that  the  same 

shall  be  subject  to  tlie  visitation  of  us  and  of  our 
successors,  as  provided  by  law.  On  Condition,  how- 
ever, that  the  said  endowment  shall  never  be  dimin- 
ished in  value  below  two  thousand  five  hundred 
dollars,  and  that  the  same  shall  never  be  applied  to 
purposes  other  than  for  public  academic  instruction ; 
subject  also  to  the  ordinance  of  us,  the  said  Regents, 
as  to  the  debts  of  Academies,  passed  January  15,  1857. 

In  Witness  whereof,  we,  tlie  said  Regents,  have  caused  our 

common  seal  to  be  hereunto  affixed,  and  our  Chancellor 

and  Secretary  to  subscribe  their  names,  this  day 

[l.  s.]  of  ,  in  the  year  one  thousand  eight  hundred 

and 

Chancellor. 

,  Secretary, 

IT.  For  a  provisional  incorporation,  to  facilitate  the 
purchase  of  a  site  for  an  academy,  and  the  erection 
of  the  necessary  buildings,  and  for  the  organization 
of  a  proper  course  of  instruction. 

1.  With  a  capital  stock,  pursuant  to  chapter  544  of 
laws  of  1851,  and  chapter  184  of  laws  of  1853. 

To  the  Regents  of  the   University  of  the  State  of  New    York  : 

The  petition  of  the  undersigned,  inhabitants  of  the 
,  in  county  of  , 

Respectfully  represents  : 

That  they  are  desirous  to  found  an  academy  in  the 

,  in  the  county  of  ,  with  a  capital 

stock  of  dollars,  to  be  divided  into  shares  of 

dollars  each,  pursuant  to  the  act  chapter  544 

of  laws  of  1851,  and  the  act  chapter  184  of  the  laws 

of  1853,  and   that  subscriptions  to  the  said  capital 


INCORPORATION  OF  ACADEMIES.        117 

stock  have  been  procured  to  the  amount  of 
dollars,  as  will  appear  by  the  list  of  said  subscriptions, 
a  copy  whereof  is  hereto  annexed,  from  which  it  also 
appears  that  your  petitioners  are  the  subscribers  for 
more  than  one-half  of  the  said  amount.  That  at  least 
ten  per  cent  of  the  amount  subscribed  has  been  paid 
by  or  for  each  subscriber  in  cash,  and  is  now  held  by 
your  petitioners  on  their  behalf,  for  the  purposes  of 
the  incorporation  herein  prayed  for.  That  all  the 
said  subscriptions  are,  as  your  petitioners  believe, 
made  in  good  faith  and  by  parties  who  have  the 
ability  to  pay  the  amount  subscribed  by  them  respect- 
ively. That  your  petitioners  are  desirous  that  the 
said  academy  may  be  incorporated  by  the  name  of 
,  and  that  they  do  hereby  nominate  the  fol- 
lowing persons  as  the  first  trustees  thereof  [give 
christian  names  in  full]  : 

The  undersigned  do  therefore  request  the  regents 
to  incorporate  the  persons  above  nominated  as  the 
first  trustees  of  the  said  academy  by  the  name  above 
mentioned.  It  being  distinctly  declared  and  under- 
stood by  your  petitioners,  that  the  said  incorporation 
is  now  asked  for  to  facilitate  the  purchase  of  a  site 
for  the  said  academy  and  the  erection  of  the  necessary 
buildings  therefor,  and  for  the  commencement  and 
organization  of  a  proper  course  of  instruction  therein  • 
and  that  if  a  proper  building  for  the  purposes  of  the 
said  academy  shall  not  be  provided  and  erected,  and 
a  suitable  course  of  instruction  be  organized  within 
two  years  from  the  granting  of  the  charter  prayed 
for,  and  a  report  of  the  same  made  by  the  said  trust- 
ees or  their  successors  to  the  said  regents,  containing 
all  the  particulars  required  in  the  case  of  an  applica- 
tion for  granting  a  charter  to  an  academy  already 
endowed  with  sufficient  academic  property,  that  then, 
at  any  time  thereafter,  the  said  charter,  on  a  declara- 


118  ORDINANCES    RELATIVE   TO 

tion  to  that  effect  to  be  made  by  the  said  regents  oj. 
their  minutes,  on  evidence  satisfactory  to  them,  shall 
become  and  be  absolutely  void ;  and  on  the  further 
understanding,  that  the  said  academy  is  not  to  be 
entitled  to  any  part  of  the  funds  which  may  by  law, 
from  time  to  time,  be  distributed  to  or  divided  among 
the  incorporated  academies  of  the  state,  arising  from 
the  income  of  the  literature  fund  or  otherwise,  until  the 
said  capital  stock  shall  have  been  fully  paid  in,  and 
until  a  suitable  academy  building  shall  have  been 
erected  or  procured  therefor,  and  a  library  and  philo- 
sophical apparatus  obtained  of  the  character  and 
value  required  by  the  ordinances  of  the  regents. 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  subscription  list 
above  referred  to : 

[Here  follow  the  signatures  of  subscribers  in  their 
own  handwriting.] 

Affidavit. 

State  of  New  York,  )      . 

County  of  ,  J      * 

A,  B,  C  (three  at  least),  signers  to  the  above  appli- 
cation, being  duly  sworn  (or  affirmed,  as  the  case  may 
be),  depose  and  say,  that  they  are  acquainted  with 
the  contents  of  the  preceding  application,  that  the 
statement  of  facts  therein  set  forth  is  in  all  respects 
true,  to  the  best  of  their  knowledge,  information  and 
belief,  that  they  believe  the  said  subscription  to  be  a 
valid  one,  and  that  the  application  is  made  in  good 
faith  for  the  purposes  therein  stated. 

(Signed),  A. 

0* 

Subscribed  and  sworn  before  me,  ) 

this  day  of  ,  18    .  J 


incorporation  of  academies.  hq 

Form    of   Charter   granted   on   the    preceding 
Application. 

TTfiiversity  of  the  State  of  New  York, 

By  the  Regents  of  the  University  of  the  State  of  New 
York: 
Whereas,  and  others,  have  in  due  form 

made  application  in  writing,  under  their  hands,  to  the 
said  Regents,  representing  that  they  are  desirous  to 
found  an  Academy  in  the  ,  in  the  county 

of  ,  with  a  capital  stock  of  dollars, 

to  be  divided  into  shares  of  dollars  each, 

as  authorized  by  law,  and  that  they,  the  said  appli- 
cants, are  the  subscribers  for  more  than  half  the  said 
amount,  and  requesting  that  the  said  Academy  may 
be  incorporated  by  the  name  of  ,  and 

nominating  the  following  persons  as  first  Trustees 
thereof:  .     And  the  said  Kegents 

having  considered  the  said  application,  do  hereby, 
pursuant  to  the  authority  vested  in  them  by  law,  de- 
clare their  approbation  of  the  incorporation  of  the 
persons  in  that  behalf  above  named  as  trustees  of 
the  said  Academy,  by  the  aforesaid  name  of 

,  and  do  hereby  incorporate  the  said 
Academy  accordingly,  with  the  capital  stock  above 
mentioned,  and  subject  to  the  visitation  of  the  said 
Regents,  and  of  their  successors,  as  provided  by  law. 
On  condition,  however,  that  the  said  capital  stock 
shall  not  be  diminished  in  amount,  and  that  the  same 
shall  never  be  applied  to  purposes  other  than  for  j)ub- 
lie  academic  instruction.  And  on  the  further  condi- 
tion and  understanding,  that  if  a  proper  building  for 
the  purposes  of  the  said  Academy  shall  not  be  pro- 
vided or  erected,  and  a  suitable  course  of  instruction 
be  organized  therein,  within  two  years  from  the  date 
hereof,  and  a  report  of  the  same  be  made  by  the  said 
trustees,  or  their  successors,  to  the  said  Regents,  con- 


120  ORDINANCES  RELATIVE  TO 

taining  the  particulars  in  that  behalf  required  by 
their  ordinances,  that  then,  at  any  time  thereafter, 
this  charter,  on  a  declaration  to  that  effect  to  be  made 
by  the  said  Regents  on  their  minutes,  on  evidence 
satisfactory  to  them,  shall  become  absolutely  void. 
And  it  is  also  further  expressly  understood,  that  the 
said  Academy  is  not  to  be  entitled  to  any  part  of  the 
funds  which  may  by  law  be  distributed  to  or  divided 
among  the  incorporated  academies  of  this  state, 
arising  from  the  income  of  the  literature  fund,  or 
otherwise,  until  the  said  capital  stock  shall  have  been 
fully  paid  in,  and  until  a  suitable  academy  building 
shall  have  been  erected  or  procured,  and  a  library 
and  philosophical  apparatus  obtained  for  the  said 
academy,  of  the  character  and  value  required  by  law 
and  the  ordinances  of  the  said  regents,  and  until  also 
it  shall  satisfactorily  appear  to  the  said  regents  that 
their  ordinance  in  regard  to  the  debts  of  academies, 
passed  January  15,  1857,  has  been  fully  complied 
with. 

In   Witness   whereof,  the  said   Regents     have  caused  their 

common  seal  to  be  hereunto  aflBxed,  and  their  Chancellor 

and  Secretary  to  subscribe  their  names,  this  day  of 

[l,  s.]  ,  in  the  year  one  thousand   eight   hundred 

and 

,  Chancellor. 

,  Secretary. 

2.  For  a  provisional  incorporation  founded  on  dona- 
tions or  endowments  not  in  form  of  the  capital  stock. 

To  the  Regents  of  the  University  of  the  State  of  New  York : 

The  petition  of  the  undersigned,  inhabitants  of  the 
,  in  the  county  of  , 

Respectfully  represents : 

That  they  are  desirous  to  found  an  academy  at  , 

in  the  county  of  ,  and  that  for  the  endowment 


INCURPORATIOX    or    ACADEMIES.  131 

of  such  academy,  subscriptions  have  been  obtained 
to  the  amount  of  dollars,  as  will  appear  by  a 

copy  of  the  subscription  list  hereunto  annexed,  and 
from  which  it  also  appears  that  your  petitioners  have 
contributed  more  than  one-half  of  the  said  amount 
thus  subscribed.  That  at  least  ten  per  cent  of  the 
amount  subscribed  has  been  paid  by  or  for  each  sub- 
scriber in  cash,  and  is  now  held  by  your  petitioners 
or  on  their  behalf,  for  the  purposes  of  the  incorpora- 
tion herein  prayed  for.  That  all  the  said  subscriptions 
are,  as  your  petitioners  believe,  made  in  good  faith 
and  by  parties  who  have  the  ability  to  pay  the 
amount  subscribed  by  them  respectively,  and  that  no 
other  property  has  been  contributed  or  collected  for 
the  said  academy.  That  your  petitioners  request 
that  the  said  academy  may  be  incorporated  by  the 
name  of  ,  and  they  do  hereby  nominate  the 

following  persons  as  the  first  trustees  thereof  [give 
christian  names  in  full]  : 

The  undersigned  do  therefore  request  the  regents 
to  incorporate  the  persons  above  nominated  as  the 
first  trustees  of  the  said  academy  by  the  name  above 
mentioned.  It  being  distinctly  declared  and  under- 
stood by  your  petitioners  that  the  said  incorporation 
is  now  asked  for  to  facilitate  the  purchase  of  a  site 
for  the  said  academy  and  the  erection  of  the  necessary 
buildings  therefor,  and  for  the  commencement  and 
organization  of  a  proper  course  of  instruction  therein ; 
and  that  if  a  proper  building  for  the  purposes  of  the 
said  academy  shall  not  be  provided  or  erected,  and  a 
suitable  course  of  instruction  be  organized  within  two 
years  from  the  granting  of  the  charter  prayed  for, 
and  a  report  of  the  same  be  made  by  the  said  trust- 
ees to  the*  said  regents,  containing  all  the  particulars 
required  in  the  case  of  an  application  for  the  incorpo- 
ration of  an  academy  by  the  said  regents,  that  then, 
16 


12^  ORDINANCES    RELATIVE   TO 

at  any  time  thereafter,  the  said  charter,  on  a  declara- 
tion to  that  effect  to  be  made  by  the  said  regents  on 
their  minutes,  on  evidence  satisfactory  to  them,  shall 
become  and  be  absolutely  void ;  and  on  the  further 
understanding,  that  the  said  academy  is  not  to  be 
entitled  to  any  part  of  the  funds  which  may  by  law, 
from  time  to  time,  be  distributed  to  or  divided  among 
the  incorporated  academies  of  the  state,  arising  from 
the  income  of  the  literature  fund  or  otherwise,  until 
at  least  two  thousand  five  hundred  dollars  shall  have 
been  paid  in  or  contributed  towards  founding  and 
establishing  the  same,  and  until  a  suitable  academy 
building  shall  have  been  erected  or  procured  there- 
for, and  a  library  and  philosophical  apparatus  obtained 
of  the  character  and  value  required  by  the  ordinances 
of  the  regents. 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  subscription  list 
above  referred  to : 

[Here  follow  the  signatures  of  the  petitioners  who 
have  contributed  as  above,  in  their  own  handwriting.] 

Affidavit. 

State  of  New  York,  ) 

County  of  ,  )      ' 

A,  B,  C,  [three  at  least,]  signers  of  the  above  appli- 
cation, being  duly  sworn  [or  aflirmed,  as  the  case  may 
be],  depose  and  say,  that  they  are  acquainted  with 
the  contents  of  the  preceding  application,  and  that  the 
statement  of  facts  therein  set  forth  is  in  all  respects 
true,  to  the  best  of  their  knowledge,  information  and 
belief,  that  they  believe  the  said  subscription  to  be  a 
valid  one,  and  that  the  application  is  made  in  good 
foith  for  the  purposes  therein  stated. 

(Signed)  A. 

Subscribed  and  sworn  before  me,  ) 

this  day  of  18    .J 


INCORPORATION    OF    ACADEMIES.  123 

[If  any  donations,  other  than  in  money,  have  been 
made  to  the  academy,  such  as  a  lot  for  the  site  of  the 
building,  etc.,  etc.,  the  fact  should  be  stated  in  the  ap- 
plication, and  the  property  described,  and  the  value 
thereof,  and  the  foregoing  form  should  be  altered  to 
conform  to  the  circumstances.] 

The  form  of  charter  on  this  application  is  mainly 
the  same  as  the  preceding. 

III.  Form  of  application  by  the  trustees  of  an 
academy  provisionally  incorporated,  asking  that  the 
provisional  charter  may  be  declared  absolute. 

To  the  Regents  of  the    University  of  the  State  of  New  York : 

The  trustees  of  academy  respectfully  rep« 

resent,  that  they  received  from  your  honorable  body 
a  provisional  charter,  bearing  date  18     ,  that 

they  have  founded  an  academy  at  ,  in  the 

county  of  ,  procured  a  suitable  lot,  erected  a 

suitable  building  thereon,  and  supplied  it  with  a  suit- 
able library  and  apparatus  for  the  accommodation  of 
such  academy,  as  will  appear  by  the  following  de- 
scription [here  adopt  the  form  prescribed  for  an  ap- 
plication for  an  absolute  charter  on  page  109  e^  seq.] 

The  said  trustees  do  therefore  hereby  make  appli- 
cation to  the  regents  of  the  university,  that  the 
charter  of  their  academy,  issued  and  dated  as  afore- 
said, be  declared  absolute,  and  that  they  be  admitted 
to  all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  academies  incorpo- 
rated with  an  absolute  charter. 

[Here  is*  to  follow  the  authentication  of  the  appli- 
cation in  the  form  prescribed  on  page  114  e^  seq.] 

IV.  Form  of  application  of  an  academy  already 
incorporated  by  the  legislature,  to  become  subject  to 
the  visitation  of  the  regents  of  the  university. 


124  ORDINANCES    RELATIVE   TO 

To  the  Regents  of  the  University  of  the  State  of  Neio  YorTc : 

The  trustees  of  academy,  established  at         , 

respecifiilly  represent,  that  they  were  incorporated 
by  the  legislature  on  the  day  of  ,  18      ; 

that  they  are  desirous  to  become  subject  to  the  visi- 
tation of  the  regents  of  the  university,  to  enable  them 
to  participate  in  the  distribution  of  the  moneys  be- 
longing to  the  literature  fund,  pursuant  to  the  statute 
in  such  case  made  and  provided  ;  and  to  that  end  they 
hereby  subject  the  said  academy  to  the  visitation  of 
the  said  regents,  to  the  same  extent  and  in  the  same 
manner  as  if  they  had  been  originally  incorporated 
by  them  ;  and  the  said  trustees  herewith  submit  the 
following  statement  of  the  condition  of  their  institu- 
tion on  the  date  of  this  application,  in  respect  to  the 
several  subject-matters  required  to  be  embraced  in 
it. 

[Here  adopt  the  form  given  on  page  109  et  seq,^  ob- 
serving the  fact,  that,  as  in  one  case  there  is  an  appli- 
cation for  an  incorporation,  and  in  the  other,  the 
academy  is  already  incorporated,  it  is  necessary  to  use 
terms  conformable  to  the  respective  cases.] 

V.  Form  of  application  of  the  board  of  education 
of  a  union  school  to  subject  their  academical  depart- 
ment to  the  visitation  of  the  regents  of  the  university. 

To  the   Regents  of  the  University  of  the  State  of  New  York ; 

The  undersigned,  constituting  the  board  of  educa- 
tion, or  the  trustees  of  the  union  school  of  , 
in  the  county  of                    , 
Respectfully  represent : 

That  said  union  school  has  been  established  under 
ihe  provisions  of  chapter  of  the  laws  of  18     ; 


VISITATION    OF    ACADEMICAL    DEPAIIT:&[ENTS.      125 

that  an  academical  department  lias  been  organized 
and  is  in  operation  in  said  school ;  that  the  said 
academical  department  is  taught  in  the  building  ap- 
propriated to  said  school  [or  if  a  separate  building 
has  been  provided,  let  it  be  so  stated]  ;  that  a  suita- 
ble library  and  apparatus  have  been  provided,  as  will 
more  fully  appear  by  the  following  description  [hero 
describe  grounds  and  buildings,  and  give  catalogue 
of  library  and  apparatus,  as  directed  in  the  form  of 
application  for  the  incorporation  of  an  academy 
proper  on  page  109  et  seq.\ 

The  undersigned  do  therefore  hereby  make  appli- 
cation to  the  regents  of  the  university,  that  the  said 
academical  department  may  be  received  under  their 
visitation,  according  to  the  provisions  of  law  in  such 
case  made  and  provided.  [To  be  signed  by  the  mem- 
bers of  the  board  of  education.] 

Authentication  of  Application. 

State  of  New  Yoek,  ) 
County  of  >  )    ^ ' 

being  duly  SAvorn 
(or  affirmed  as  the  case  may  be),  deposes  and  says, 
that  he  is  president  of  the  board  of  education  of 

;.  that  he  is  well  acquainted  with  the 
facts  set  forth  in  the  preceding  application  to  the 
regents  of  the  university,  and  that  the  same  are  in  all 
respects  true,  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge,  informa- 
tion and  belief. 

(Signed)  A.  B. 

Subscribed  and  sworn  before  me, 
this  day  of  ,  18 

1* 


\H 


126  OKDliJAiiCES   KELATIVE   TO 


CHAPTER  XIV. 

ANNUAL   REPORTS    OF   ACADEMIES. 

1.  As  to  the  Financial  Condition  of  Academies. 

Sec.  1.  The  trustees  of  every  academy  incorpo- 
rated by  the  regents  or  subject  to  their  visitation, 
shall,  in  every  annual  rej^ort  to  the  regents,  either 
make  and  transmit  a  full  statement  of  all  the  acade- 
mic property  then  belonging  to  them  in  the  manner 
required  by  the  form  of  application  for  incorporation, 
or  in  lieu  thereof,  state  whether  such  property  remains 
in  all  respects  the  same  as  at  the  time  of  making  any 
previous  statement  thereof,  to  be  particularly  referred 
to  by  them,  or  whether  the  same  has  been  increased 
or  diminished  in  quantity,  enhanced  or  depreciated  in 
value,  and  to  what  extent,  or  has  in  any  other  and 
what  respect,  undergone  any  and  what  change,  since 
the  time  of  making  such  previous  statement  —  shoM^- 
ing,  in  all  cases,  the  true  value  of  such  property  at 
the  time  of  making  such  report  as  aforesaid ;  and  it 
is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the  trustees  of  every  sucli 
academy,  at  or  near  the  close  of  the  year  for  which 
every  such  report  is  made,  to  cause  all  the  books  and 
articles  of  apparatus  then  actually  possessed  by  thein,^ 
to  be  compared  with  the  original  catalogues  or  inven- 
tories thereof  (to  be  always  preserved  for  that  pur- 
pose), to  ascertain  whether  any  of  their  books  or 
articles  of  apparatus   have  been   lost,  destroyed  or 


ANNUAL    REPORTS    OF    ACADEMIES.  127 

damaged  beyond  the  ordinary  wear  and  tear  thereof 
from  necessary  use,  and  to  state  in  every  such  report 
whether  such  duty  has  been  discharged,  and  whether 
any,  and  if  any,  what  part  of  their  books  and  appa- 
ratus shall  on  such  comparison  be  found  to  be  lost, 
destroyed  or  damaged  as  aforesaid,  and  througli 
whose  act,  omission  or  neglect  such  loss  or  damage 
shall  have  happened. 

§  2.  Every  academy  subject  to  the  visitation  of  the 
regents  of  the  university,  and  claiming  a  distributive 
share  of  the  income  of  the  literature  fund,  shall  annu- 
ally, on  or  before  the  first  day  of  November,  make  and 
transmit  to  the  regents  (so  that  the  same  may  be  re- 
ceived by  their  secretary  on  or  before  that  day)  a 
report  in  writing,  in  such  form  as  shall  be  prescribed, 
exhibiting  a  full  view  of  its  state  and  condition,  at 
the  close  of  its  academic  year,  in  respect  to  the  fol- 
lowing particulars,  viz. : 

Condition  and  value  of  its  academic  lot  and  build- 
ings. 

Condition  and  value  of  its  library  and  philosophical 
apparatus. 

Kind  and  value  of  its  other  property. 

Title  of  its  property. 

Incumbrances  and  debts. 

General  cash  account. 

Annual  revenue  and  expenditures. 

Amount  of  money  received  by  it  from  the  regents 
of  the  university  since  its  last  annual  report,  and  how 
the  same  has  been  expended. 


128  ORDINANCES    RELATIVE    TO 

And  also  in  respect  to  all  such  other  matters  as 
shall  be  required  by  the  said  regents  to  be  reported 
on  in  the  form  prescribed  by  them. 

2.  As  to  the  Literary  and  Scientific  condition  of 
Academies. 

§  3.  The  report  required  as  above,  shall  also  con- 
tain the  number  and  names  of  its  teachers,  and  the 
annual  salary  or  compensation  allowed  to  each ;  the 
age  of  such  teachers ;  the  time  each  has  been  engaged 
in  teaching ;  the  general  course  of  study  pursued  pre- 
paratory to  teaching ;  and  whether  the  business  of 
teaching  is  pursued  as  a  permanent  or  a  temporary 
employment. 

The  whole  number  of  pupils,  including  classical 
and  all  others,  who  have  been  taught  during  each  of 
the  academic  terms  of  the  year. 

The  whole  number  of  pupils  who  have  been  taught 
during  the  whole  or  any  part  of  the  academic  year 
for  which  the  report  is  made. 

The  number  of  pupils  belonging  to  the  academy 
at  the  date  of  its  report,  or  who  belonged  to  it 
during  part  of  the  year,  ending  on  the  date  thereof, 
and  who  are  claimed  by  the  trustees  to  have  pursued 
for  four  months  of  said  year  or  upwards,  classical 
studies,  or  the  higher  branches  of  English  education, 
or  both,  according  to  the  form  to  be  from  time  to 
time  prescribed. 

§  4.  The  said  report  shall  also  contain,  or  have  ap- 
pended or  annexed  to  it,  a  true  catalogue  or  list  of 
all  the  students  belonging  to  the  academy  at  the  date 


ANNUAL    EEPORTS    OF    ACADEMIES.  139 

of  its  report,  or  during  part  of  the  year  ending  on 
the  date  of  its  report,  who  are  claimed  by  its  trus- 
tees to  be  such  classical  scholars,  or  such  scholars 
in  the  higher  branches  of  English  education,  or  botli, 
and  to  have  pursued  their  studies  for  such  length  of 
time  as  to  entitle  the  academy  to  which  tliey  belong 
to  a  distributive  share  of  the  income  of  the  literature 
fund,  in  which  said  catalogue  or  list  shall  be  inserted 
the  name  or  age  of  each  student  claimed  to  be  such 
scholar  as  aforesaid,  together  with  a  specification  of 
the  different  studies  pursued  by  such  student,  and  the 
length  of  time  the  same  were  pursued  in  each  quarter 
or  term  of  the  year  ending  on  the  date  of  said  report, 
by  recitations  of  ordinary  frequency  and  in  the  ordi- 
nary way,  designating  said  studies  by  the  ordinary 
name  or  title  of  the  book  or  treatise  on  the  subject  so 
studied,  and  designating  also  the  part  or  portion  of 
the  book  or  treatise  so  studied. 

The  said  report  shall  be  properly  authenticated  and 
verified  by  the  affidavit  of  the  president  of  the  trus- 
tees, and  of  the  principal  of  the  academy.  [  Ordi7mnce 
vf  October  20,  1853,] 

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130  ORDINANCES  BELATIVE  TO 


CHAPTER  XV. 

EXAMINATION  AND  CLASSIFICATION  OF  SCHOLARS  AND 
DISTRIBUTION  OF  THE  LITERATURE  FUND. 

Section  1.  The  scholars  in  every  academy  subject 
to  the  visitation  of  the  regents  of  the  university  shall 
be  divided  into  two  classes,  to  be  denominated  prepara- 
tory and  academic.  Preparatory  scholars  shall  be  those 
who  pursue  studies  preliminary  to  the  higher  branches 
of  English  education;  and  academic  scholars,  those 
who,  having  passed  the  examination  in  preliminary 
studies  hereinafter  provided  for,  shall  pursue  the  higher 
branches  of  English  education,  or  the  classics,  or  both. 

§  2.  At  or  near  the  close  of  each  academic  year, 
and  oftener,  if  judged  necessary  by  the  trustees  of 
any  academy,  an  examination  in  writing  of  all  schol- 
ars presumed  to  have  completed  preliminary  studies 
shall  be  held,  in  conformity  with  inetructions  to  be 
issued  by  the  chancellor  and  secretary  of  the  univer- 
sity, under  the  direction  of  a  committee  of  at  least 
three  persons  to  be  appointed  by  the  trustees  of  the 
academy.  Printed  sets  of  questions  in  arithmetic, 
English  grammar  and  geography,  and  an  exercise  in 
spelling,  shall  be  prepared  or  approved  by  the  chan- 
cellor and  secretary  of  the  university,  and  furnished 
to  each  academy  making  due  application  for  the  same. 
A  record  of  the  names,  ages  and  residences  of  all 
scholars  who  shall  successfully  pass  such  examination. 


EXAMIKATIOiq^  OF  SCHOLARS.  131 

with  the  number  of  questions  correctly  answered  in 
each  exercise,  shall  be  kept  in  a  book  provided  for  the 
purpose,  and  preserved  as  the  property  of  the  academy. 

§  3.  The  written  answers  to  the  questions  and  exer- 
cises, as  given  by  each  scholar  who  shall  be  claimed  to 
have  passed  the  examination,  shall  be  forwarded  to  the 
secretary  of  the  university  within  one  montli  after  the 
date  of  the  examination,  accompanied  by  a  statement  of 
the  name,  age  and  residence  of  each  scholar  claimed  as 
aforesaid,  and  the  number  of  correct  answers  claimed 
to  have  been  given  in  each  study,  duly  certified  by  the 
committee  and  verified  by  the  affidavit  of  the  principal; 
and  to  each  scholar  who  shall  be  found  to  liave  answered 
at  least  seventy-five  per  cent  of  the  questions  on  each 
subject,  and  to  have  written  with  correct  spelling 
and  in  a  fair  and  legible  hand  at  least  eighty-five  per 
cent  of  the  words  in  the  spelling  exercise,  shall  be 
given  a  certificate  of  academic  scholarship,  in  such 
form  as  the  chancellor  of  the  university  shall  approve,, 
and  under  the  name  of  the  chancellor  and  secretary, 
to  be  countersigned  by  the  principal  of  the  academy  ; 
which  certificate  shall  entitle  the  person  to  whom  it 
is  granted  to  admission  into  the  academic  class  in  any 
academy  subject  to  the  visitation  of  the  regents,  with- 
out further  examination.  —  [1870,  J/arc/i  29. 

§  4.  The  fourth  section  of  the  ordinance  of  March 
twenty-ninth,  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy  (Uni- 
versity  Ma7iual,  1870,  pp.  83,  84),  being  in  the  words 
following,  to  wit : 

*'  §  4.  Scholars  admitted  to  any  academy  who  have 


132  ORDINANCES  RELATIVE  TO 

not  received  the  certificates  of  examination  as  afore- 
said, and  who  claim  or  are  presumed  to  be  academic 
scholars,  shall  within  one  week  of  such  admission  be 
examined  by  the  principal  and  other  teachers  of  the 
academy,  and  if  found  to  have  completed  the  prelim- 
inary studies,  shall  be  provisionally  admitted  to  the 
academic  class  ;  but  such  admission  shall  not  excuse 
such  scholar  from  the  examination  above  required  at 
the  close  of  the  term,  and  the  certificate  as  aforesaid 
shall  be  given  only  on  such  examination,  but  may 
have  effect  as  if  given  at  the  commencement  of  the 
term,  provided  the  committee  shall  be  satisfied  that 
the  scholar  to  whom  it  was  given  was  at  that  time  en- 
titled to  it,"  is  hereby  repealed.  —  [1879,  July  8. 

§  5.  All  scholars  admitted  to  the  academic  class  as 
aforesaid,  shall  be  regarded  as  scholars  in  the  higher 
branches  of  English  education  or  as  classical  scholars; 
and  having  after  such  admission  pursued  studies  usu- 
ally regarded  as  in  advance  of  arithmetic,  English 
grammar,  and  geography,  as  aforesaid,  or  having  be- 
come thoroughly  proficient  in  the  elementary  works 
usually  studied  prior  to  the  classics,  and  in  addition 
thereto  having  studied  the  first  book  of  Virgil,  or  its 
equivalent  in  Caesar,  Sallust  or  Cicero,  shall  entitle 
the  academy  to  which  they  belong  to  a  share  in.  the 
distribution  of  the  literature  fund,  provided  they 
have  pursued  such  studies  for  four  months  or  upwards 
of  the  year  for  which  the  distribution  is  made ;  the 
said  four  months  to  embrace  at  least  thirteen  full 
weeks  of  study.— [1870,  March  29. 


DISTKIBUTIOJ?"   OF   LITERATURE   FUN"D.  133 

The  ordinances,  heretofore  in  force,  relative  to  the 
distribution  of  the  literature  fund,  are  hereby  amended 
by  the  addition  of  the  following,  viz.  (§§  6-8)  : 

§  6.  In  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  chapter 
514,  of  the  laws  of  1880,  a  portion  of  the  income  of  the 
literature  fund,  not  to  exceed  the  one-fourth  part 
thereof,  shall  hereafter  be  distributed  in  proportion 
to  the  number  of  pupils  in  the  several  academies,  who 
during  the  preceding  year  have  passed  the  advanced 
examination  [established  by  the  Regents  under  the 
provisions  of  chapter  425,  §  6,  of  the  laws  of  1877]; 
and  in  such  distribution  the  pupils  to  be  counted 
shall  be  those,  only,  whose  examination  for  inter- 
mediate certificates,  or  for  diplomas,  shall  be  com- 
pleted at  the  academic  examinations  held  November, 
1880,  or  subsequent  thereto;  provided  that  they  have 
been  in  attendance  at  said  academies  for  a  period  of 
not  less  than  thirteen  weeks  during  the  year  for  which 
such  distribution  is  made;  and  for  each  such  pupil 
who,  during  the  academic  year  preceding  the  time  of 
apportionment,  shall  complete  the  examination  re- 
quired for  the  Regents'  diploma,  the  sum  of  ten 
dollars  shall  be  allotted  to  each  academy,  and  for  eacli 
additional  pupil  who  in  like  manner  shall  complete 
the  examinations  required  for  the  intermediate  certi- 
ficate, the  sum  of  five  dollars;  provided  that  the  whole 
sum  so  distributed  does  not  exceed  the  one-fourth 
part  of  the  amount  appropriated  from  the  literature 
fund  as  prescribed  by  law;  but  when  a  greater  sum 
than  said  fourth  part   would    be  required,  then  the 


134  OEDINANCES  RELATIVE  TO 

amount  allotted  for  each  pupil  shall  be  so  reduced 
that  the  whole  sum  shall  conform  to  the  legal  limit. 

§  7o  The  statute  which  provides  in  regard  to  the 
distribution  of  the  literature  fund,  that  "every  such 
distribution  shall  be  made  in  proportion  to  the  num- 
ber of  pupils  in  each  seminary,  who,  for  four  months 
during  the  preceding  year,  shall  have  pursued  therein 
classical  studies,  or  the  higher  branches  of  English 
education,  or  both"  (1  E.  S.  458,  §  24),  is  to  be  con- 
strued as  requiring  sach  pupils  to  pursue  at  least 
three  subjects  of  study  during  the  period  prescribed 
by  law,  or,  if  a  less  number,  a  proportionally  greater 
amount  of  time  shall  bo  devoted  to  them:  this  clause 
to  take  effect  at  tho  beginning  of  next  academic  year, 

§  8.  It  shall  be  deemed  a  suflftcient  compliance  with 
the  ordinance  of  March  29,  1870,  §  5,  that  scholars 
counted  in  the  distribution  of  the  literature  fund 
shall  have  passed  the  preliminary  examination  at  or 
before  the  close  of  the  academic  year  for  which  the 
distribution  is  made,  instead  of  wholly  in  advance  of 
the  required  period  of  study. —  [1881,  January  13. 

§  9.  Whenever  an  academical  department  of  a 
union  school  shall  be  established  by  the  adoption  of 
nn  existing  academy,  as  authorized  by  chapter  555, 
title  IX,  §  24  of  the  laws  of  1864,  such  department 
shall  not  be  recognized  and  allowed  [after  January  1, 
1881]  to  participate  in  the  distribution  of  funds 
apportioned  by  said  regents  of  the  university,  until 
it  shall  have  been  formally  received  under  visitation, 
on  due  application  made  by  the  board  of  education 


DISTRIBUTION    OP    LITERATURE    FUis^Do  135 

of  such  union  school,  in  the  form  prescribed  for 
academical  departments  established  de  novo. — [1880. 
January  9. 

§  10.  All  scholars  in  the  academic  class  shall  be  ex- 
ercised in  composition  and  declamation  alternately, 
as  often  as  once  in  every  week,  and  in  spelling,  reading 
and  Avriting  as  often  as  thorough  proficiency  in  those 
subjects  shall  require  ;  except  that  instead  of  declama- 
tion, females  may  be  exercised  in  reading,  with  special 
regard  to  elocution.  —  [1853,  October  20. 

§  11.  The  apportionment  or  distribution  of  the  in- 
come of  the  literature  fund  among  academies  is  made 
by  the  regents  of  the  university,  at  their  annual  meet- 
ing in  January,  Soon  after  the  apportionment  is 
made,  it  is  published  in  the  State  paper  for  the  time 
being,  and  certified  by  the  chancellor  and  secretary 
of  the  university  to  the  comptroller,  on  whose  war- 
rant the  amount  apportioned  to  each  academy  will 
be  paid  by  the  treasurer  of  tlie  State,  on  drafts  or 
orders  therefor  drawn  on  him  by  the  treasurers  of  the 
several  academies;  such  drafts  or  orders  being  accom- 
panied by  a  proper  certificate  from  the  president  or 
secretary  of  the  academy,  under  its  corporate  seal, 
that  the  person  signing  the  draft  is  the  treasurer  of 
the  academy,  duly  appointed  by  the  trustees  thereof. 
The  draft  must  be  in  the  following  form,  duly  indorsed: 
To  the  Treasurer  of  the  State  of  New  York  : 

Pay  to  the  order  of  ,  the  amount  of  money  ap- 
portioned in  January,  18  ,  to  ^  by  the  regents 
of  the  university,  out  of  tlie  income  of  the  literature 
fund.                     Signed,         Treasurer  of 

Dated  at  ,  18    , 


136  OKDINANCES   RELATIVE   TO 

It  is  hereby  certified  that  ,  the  person  signing 

the  above  draft  or  order,  is  the  treasurer  of  the  said 
iicademy,  duly  appointed  by  the  trustees  thereof,  and 
that  the  said  draft  was  duly  signed  by  hinio 

In  witness  whereof,  the  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  lias 
liereto  subscribed  his  name,  and  caused  the   corporate 
^    ^,      seal  of  the  academy  to  be  affixed,*  this  day 

^'  ^'    of  18    . 


President  (or  Secretary)  of 

A  copy  of  the  above  form  of  draft,  including  tlie 
amount  apportioned,  will  be  forwarded  from  the  office 
of  the  regents  to  the  treasurer  of  each  academy,  for 
his  signature  and  indorsement  and  the  requisite  cer- 
tificatCc  Such  draft  may  be  negotiated  through  a 
bank,  or  may  be  sent  by  post  to  the  treasurer  of  the 
State,  who  will  forward  his  check  for  the  amount. 

§  12.  No  part  of  the  revenue  of  the  literature  fund, 
to  be  assigned  to  any  academy  or  school  for  the  pur- 
chase of  text  books,  maps  and  globes,  or  philosophical 
or  chemical  apparatus,  shall  be  paid  over  to  such 
academy  or  school,  until  the  trustees  thereof  shall 
certify  and  declare,  under  their  corporate  seal,  that 
the  money  required  to  be  raised  and  applied  by  them 
for  the  said  purposes  has  been  raised  by  contribution, 
donation,  or  from  other  sources  independent  of  their 
own  corporate  property,  that  the  said  money  has  been 
so  raised  or  contributed  with  the  express  view  of  ap- 
plying for  and  receiving  a  like  sum  from  the  regents 
for  the  purposes  aforesaid,  and  that  the  same  has  been 
actually  paid  to  their  treasurer,  and  is  held  by  him  to 

*  If  the  academy  has  no  corporate  seal,  erase  the  clause  "and 
caused  the  corporate  seal  of  the  academy  to  be  affixed,"  and  write 
•'no  seal  "  in  the  above  space  reserved  for  the  seal. 


APPROPRIATIO]S"S   FOR   BOOKS   AND    APPARATUS.   137 

be  applied  for  the  purpose  above  mentioned,  designat- 
ing such  purpose  by  specifying  the  particular  books, 
maps  and  articles  of  apparatus  proposed  to  be  pur- 
chased by  them,  and  classifying  them  as  hereafter 
directed. 

§  13.  Whenever  (but  not  oftener  than  once  a  year) 
the  tnistees  of  any  such  academy  or  school  shall  pre- 
sent to  the  regents  the  certificate  required  by  the 
preceding  section,  in  the  form  hereafter  prescribed, 
and  the  matters  contained  therein  be  satisfactory  to 
them,  they,  the  said  regents,  will  appropriate  such  a 
sum  of  money,  not  to  exceed  one  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars,  as  may  be  authorized  by  law  and  the  i:)rovis- 
ions  of  their  ordinances. 

§  14,  The  money  so  raised  and  granted  shall  be  ap- 
plied in  the  purchases  specified  in  such  certificate,  but 
the  regents  reserve  the  right  to  disapprove  of  a  part 
or  the  whole  of  said  proposed  purchases,  and  to  desig- 
nate and  direct  Avhat  may  be  purchased  in  lieu 
thereof  or  of  part  thereof,  notice  of  the  articles  so  to 
be  designated  and  substituted  to  be  given  to  said 
trustees^ 

§  15.  Whenever  any  appropriation  shall  thus  be 
made  by  the  regents,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  chan- 
cellor and  secretary  of  the  university  to  certify  the 
same  to  the  comptroller  of  the  State,  that  the  same 
may  be  paid  by  him  according  to  the  statute  in  such 
case  made  and  provided. 

§  16o  Such  appropriations  do  not  apply  to  the  sums 
of  money  required  for  the  endowment  of  an  academy, 
18 


138  OBDINANCES   RELATIVE  TO 

viz.,  1150  for  the  purchase  of  a  library  and  $150  for 
the  purchase  of  an  apparatus,  nor  for  the  purchase 
of  chemicals,  musical  instruments,  or  miscellaneous 
books  not  specially  suitable  and  valuable  for  the  pur- 
poses of  academic  instruction. 

§  17.  Contributions  of  books,  apparatus,  minerals, 
etc,  5,  shall  not  be  considered  as  a  sufficient  compliance 
with  the  above  requirements ;  but  the  contributions 
shall  be  in  actual  money. 

§  18o  The  term  "text  books,''  as  used  in  chapter 
536,  §  3^  of  the  laws  of  1851,  is  construed  to  include 
all  standard  books,  designed  for  use  as  class  or  text 
books^  and  such  other  works  for  reading  and  reference 
as  are  useful  for  the  purposes  of  academic  instruction. 

§  19.  Every  academy  to  which  moneys  shall  be 
granted  for  the  purchase  of  books  and  apparatus,  is 
hereby  required  to  report  in  detail  to  the  regents,  in 
its  next  annual  report  presented  after  said  grant,  the 
full  and  complete  expenditure  of  all  moneys,  both 
raised  and  granted,  for  the  above  purpose,  and  that 
the  books  and  articles  purchased  are  held  as  the 
property  and  for  the  use  of  the  academy;  and  un- 
til it  does  so  account,  the  regents  will  withhold  the 
amount  unaccounted  for  from  the  respective  share  of 
each  academy,  in  the  distribution  of  the  revenue  of 
the  literature  and  United  States  deposit  funds.  Nor 
will  the  regents  make  any  new  appropriation  to  said 
academy,  unless  the  above  requisition  has  been  fully 
complied  with. 

§  20.  The  appropriations  directed  by  this  ordinance 


APPROPRIATIONS  F«)R  BOOKS   A:N^D   APPARATUS.   139 

shall  be  made  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  regents  in 
January;  and  if  the  sum  appropriated  by  the  legisla- 
ture for  this  purpose  is  not  exhausted  by  the  applica- 
cations  at  that  meeting,  then  future  applications  may 
be  acted  on  at  the  semi-annual  meeting  in  July. — • 
[1853,  Odoier  20  ;  1881,  January  13o 

§  21.  One  thousand  dollars  of  the  sum  annually  ap- 
propriated by  the  legislature  for  the  purchase  of  books 
and  apparatus  shall  be  apportioned  among  the  schools 
making  application  [in  the  form  hereinafter  prescribed, 
§  25 J  pro  rata,  according  to  the  number  of  scholars 
admitted  to  the  distribution  of  the  literature  fund; 
provided  that  no  school  shall  receive  an  amount 
greater  than  that  actually  raised  and  duly  applied  for. 

§  22,  Whenever  there  shall  be  applications  to  the 
regents  of  the  university  for  appropriations  of  money 
to  purchase  books  and  apparatus,  and  there  shall 
not  be  a  sufficient  amount  remaining,  after  the  pro 
rata  apportionment  of  one  thousand  dollars,  as  pro- 
vided by  the  next  i^receding  section  of  this  ordinance, 
to  grant  such  applications  in  full,  distribution  shall 
be  made  as  follows : 

1.  Schools  which  have  not  received  an  appropria- 
tion shall  have  preference. 

2.  Schools  which  have  not  received  an  appropria- 
tion within  ten  years  may  be  admitted  to  the  appor- 
tionment cle  novo. 

3.  Schools  which  have  received  less  than  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  dollars  may  receive  to  that  amount. 

4.  No  school  may  receive  one   hundred  and  fifty 

13 


140  ORDINANCES   RELATIVE  TO 

dollars  in  each  of  two  successive  years,  nor  more  than 
five  hundred  dollars  within  ten  years. 

§  23o  Applications  disallowed  by  the  regents  either 
wholly  or  in  part  for  the  want  of  funds,  may  be 
renewed  by  resolution  of  the  applicants  duly  certified 
and  filed  with  the  regentSo 

§  24„  Applications  received  before  .December  fif- 
teenth in  each  year  shall  have  preference  over  any  re- 
ceived at  a  later  date,  before  the  next  annual  meeting 
of  the  regents. — [1880,  July  14 ;  1881,  January  13. 

§  25,  All  applications  for  money  to  inirchase  books 
and  apparatus  must  be  in  the  following  form  % 
To  the  Regents  of  the  University  of  the  State  of  New  York  / 

The  trustees  of  academy  respectfully  represent 

that  they  have  raised  or  caused  to  be  raised,  the  sum 
of  dollars,  to  be  applied  to  the  purchase  of  books 
or  philosophical  or  chemical  apparatus,  pursuant  to 
the  statute  in  such  case  made  and  provided;  that  the 
said  sum  has  been  raised  by  donations  or  contributions 
from  sources  independent  of  their  oivn  corporate  prop- 
erty^ or  hy  taxation  ;  that  the  same  has  been  actually 
paid  to  their  treasurer  and  is  held  by  him  for  the  pur- 
pose aforesaid ;  that  the  said  money  has  been  so  raised 
or  contributed  [here  state  the  source  from  which  the 
money  was  raised,  whether  by  subscription,  tax,  or 
otherwise]  with  the  expirss  view  of  applying  for  and 
receiving  a  like  sum  from  the  regents  for  tlie  purpose 
contemplated  in  the  statute  ;  and  that  it  is  intended  to 
apply  the  said  sum  of  money,  togctlier  with  the  money 
hereby  applied  for  pursuant  to  said  act,  to  the  purchase 
of  the  books  and  articles  of  apparatus  particularly 
specified  in  the  schedule  hereunto  annexed. 

The  said  trustees  therefore  hereby  apply  to  the  re- 
gents of  the  university  for  an  appropriation  to  the  said 


APPROPRIATIONS  FOR  BOOKS  AKD  APPARATUS,    141 

academy  of  the  sum  of  dollars  out  of  the  moneys 

mentioned  in  the  said  act,  to  be  applied,  together  with 
the  like  sum  raised  by  them  as  above  mentioned, 
before  the  date  of  the  next  annual  report,  to  the 
purposes  stated  m  said  schedule,  pursuant  to  the 
provisions  of  the  act  above  referred  to. 

Done  by  the  trustees  of  said  academy,  at  a  legal 
meeting  held  the  day  of  ,  etc.,  at  which  meet- 
ing the  following  trustees  were  present  [state  their 
names]  ;  and  having  been  read  and  approved,  it  was 
duly  adopted  at  the  said  meeting  as  the  application  of 
said  academy,  and  ordered  (after  being  verified  by 
the  oath  of  the  presiding  officer  at  said  meeting  and 
recorded  on  the  minutes  of  its  proceedings)  to  be 
transmitted  to  the  regents  of  the  university,  pursuant 
to  the  provisions  of  their  ordinance  in  such  case  made 
and  provided. 

All  which  is  hereby  done  in  obedience  to  said  order^ 
this        day  of        ,  etCo 

A.  B.,  President  (or  President  pro  tem,^ 
as  the  case  may  be)  of        Academy, 

affidayit  above  referred  to. 
State  of  New  York,  )       , 

County  of  \^  " 

Ao  Boj  being  duly  sworn,  deposes  and  says  that  he 
is  one  of  the  trustees  of  academy ^  whose  applica- 
tion to  the  regents  of  the  university  immediately 
precedes  this  affidavit ;  that  he  officiated  as  the  pre- 
siding officer  at  the  meeting  of  the  trustees  of  said 
academy,  refeHTed  to  in  the  concluding  part  of  said 
application ;  that  the  statement  of  facts  therein  set 
forth  is  true,  so  far  as  the  same  is  properly  within 
his  personal  knowledge,  and  that  all  the-other  state- 
ments he  believes  to  be  true.     (Signed)  A,  Be 

Subscribed  and  sworn  before  me,  the         day  of 


142  ORDINANCES    RELATIVE   TO 

§  26.  The  following  is  the  form  of  draft  for  money 
appropriated  on  the  foregoing  application ; 
To  the  Treasurer  of  the  8tate  of  New  Yorh: 

Pay  to  the  order  of  the  amount  of  money  ap- 

propriated in  January p  18  ,  by  the  regents  of  the 
universityj  to  ^  for  the  purchase  of  books  and  ap- 
paratus. (Signed)  Treasurer  of 

Dated  at        ^  18    = 

This  draft  must  be  accompanied  by  a  certificate  in 
the  form  given  on  page  135o 

Books  recommended  for  Academy  Lilraries. 
§  27o  When  an  academy  is  incorporated  or  received 
under  visitation,  the  library  must  be  well  furnished 
with  works  of  reference  on  the  subjects  of  academic 
studvs  such  as  dictionaries  of  the  English,  Latin, 
Greek  and  French  languages,  encyclopaedias,  gazet- 
teers and  standard  works  on  science  and  literature, 
for  the  aid  of  both  teachers  and  scholars. 

Character  of  Boohs  recommendedc 
The  selection  of  books  to  be  purchased  with 
moneys  raised  and  granted  as  aforesaid  (§§  12,  13), 
is  left  to  the  discretion  of  the  trustees  of  acade- 
mies, subject  to  the  approval  of  said  regents.  It 
may  be  convenient  to  make  such  selections  from 
catalogues  issued  by  publishing  houses,  which  may  be 
obtained  on  application  to  them.  Selections  should 
be  made  with  great  care,  and  should  include  only 
works  of  standard  character,  and  of  substantial  and 
permanent  value. 

The  following  classification  with  respect  to  books 


APPROPRIATIONS  POR  BOOKS  AND  APPARATUS.      143 

proposed  to  be   purchased  must  be   observed  in   the 
applications 

Dictionaries  and  Cyclopaedias. 
History,  Biography  and  Antiquities. 
Intallectual  and  Moral  Philosophy. 
Jurisprudence,  Politics  and  Commerce. 
Periodical  and  Collective  Works, 
Pliysics  and  Natural  History. 
Voyages  and  Travels. 
Geographical  and  Statistical  Works. 
Poetry, 

Belles  Letters, 
Educational  Works. 
Miscellaneous, 

§  28,  Full  priced  catalogues  of  philosophical  and 
chemical  apparatus  may  be  obtained  of  the  manufac- 
turers, from  which  selections  for  purchases  may  be 
made.  When  the  funds  of  an  academy  will  admit  of 
only  limited  purchases,  the  following  order  is  recom- 
mended i 

lo   Globes,  terrestrial  and  celestial,  and  Maps? 

2o  Instruments  for  surveying, 

3,  Mechanical  powers* 

4,  Hydrostatic  apparatus, 

5o  Air  pump  and  pneumatic  apparatuSo 
6,  Electrical  apparatuSo 
^o  Chemical  apparatuSo 


l44  OKDIlfANCES  RELATIVE  TO 


CHAPTER    XVL 

BOOKS   OP   RECORD   AND   EMPLOYMEXT   OF  TEACHEIlS, 

Sec.  Ic  The  trustees  of  every  academy  shall  be 
required  to  keep  in  a  suitable  book  provided  for 
the  purpose  exact  records  of  all  their  proceedings, 
and  especially  of  the  election  and  appointment  of 
all  teachers  and  the  terms  on  which  they  are  so 
elected  or  appointed,  and  of  their  resignation  or  dis- 
mission. 

§  2.  They  shall  also  provide  one  or  more  suitable 
books  for  a  school  register,  in  which  shall  be  inserted 
the  names  and  ages  of  all  scholars,  and  their  average 
daily  attendance  during  each  term. 

§  3.  And  also  in  a  separate  record,  the  names,  ages 
and  studies  of  all  academic  scholars,  being  classical 
scholars  or  schoLarsin  the  higher  branches  of  English 
education,  or  both,  witli  the  date  at  wliich  they  became 
such  scholars;  said  names,  ages  and  studies  being 
arranged  by  the  terms  of  each  year,  as  required  in  tlie 
schedule  of  studies  annexed  to  the  annual  report  to 
the  regents. 

§  4.  Tlie  books  so  required  to  be  provided  shall  al- 
ways be  preserved  as  the  property  of  the  academy,  and 
shall  not  be  refuoved  from  its  possessioUo 

§  5.  The  regents,  in  their  visitation  of  academies, 
will  make  it  a  part  of  their  duty  to  examine  the  said 


ACADEMY   RECORDS   AXD   TEACHERS^  145 

"books,  to  determine  whether  they  conform  to  the  re- 
qiiirements  of  this  ordinance. 

§  6.  In  all  cases  where  the  compensation  of  the 
teachers  of  any  academy  is  made  to  depend  on  the 
amount  of  money  received  from  the  tuition  of  pupils 
or  the  distribution  of  the  literature  fund,  as  well  as 
in  all  cases  whatever,  the  trustees  of  such  academy 
shall  expressly  reserve  to  themselves,  and  shall  actu- 
ally exercise  the  right  of  employing  all  teachers  in 
their  academy,  of  fixing  the  relative  proportion  of  the 
compensation  of  the  principal  and  the  subordinate 
teachers  employed  by  them,  and  of  determining  the 
charges  for  tuition  ^  and  it  shall  be  their  duty,  and 
they  are  hereby  required  to  see  that  the  relative  pro- 
portion of  compensation  as  aforesaid  is  absolutely  paid 
to  all  subordinate  teachers,  and  in  no  case  where  the 
salaries  of  such  subordinate  teachers  are  in  arrears, 
shall  their  treasurer  pay  to  the  principal  of  their 
academy  the  distributive  share  of  the  literature  fund 
while  the  said  salaries  are  in  arrears,  but  shall  in  the 
proportion  fixed  by  them  as  aforesaid  apply  the  same 
to  the  payment  of  said  arrears ;  and  they,  the  said 
trustees,  shall  state  expressly  in  their  annual  report 
whether  they  have  so  reserved  and  exercised  such 
rights  as  aforesaid,  and  protected  the  rights  of  subor- 
dinate teachers  as  required  by  this  ordinance. — [1864, 
January  26. 

19 


146  MEDICAL 


CHAPTER  XVII. 

As   TO   EXAMINATIOITS. 

I.  Medical  Examinations. 
Mrst  board  of  medical  examiners,  appointed  under 
the  provision  of  chapter  746  of  the  Laws  of  1 872,  on 
the  application  of  the  Homoeopathic  Medical  Society 
of  the  State  of  New  York  :  * 

Date  of 
I      Appointment. 
1872,  Nov.  13.    John  F.  Gray,  LL.  D.,  M.D.,  New  York. 

Erastus  A.  Munger,  M.  D.,  Waterville,  Oneida  county, 
William  H.  Watson,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  Utica. 
Henry  B.  Millard,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  New  York. 
Wiliam  S.Searle,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  Brooklyn. 
Frank  L.  Vincent,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  Troy. 
Horace  M.  Paine,  A    M. ,  M.  D.,  Albany. 
Henry  N.  Avery,  A.   M.,  M.  D.,  Poughkeepsie. 
John    A.  McVickar,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  New  York. 
1878,    July  29.    Samuel   A.Jones,   M.   D.,  New  York,   vice  E.    A. 
Munger,  resigned. 
George  A.    Belcher,  M,  D.,  New   York,  vice  F.  L. 

Vincent,  resigned. 
JohnC.  Minor,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  New  York,  vice  H.   N. 
Avery,  removed  from  the  State. 
1874,   Feb.   28.    Carroll  Dunham,  A.  M.,  M.D.,  Irvington-on-Hudson, 
vice  S.  A.  Jones,  resigned. 

1878,  March  20.    Charles  A.  Bacon,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  New  York,  vice  C. 

Dunham,  deceased. 

1879,  April  11.    Selden    H.  Talcott,  A.  M.,M.  D.,  New  York,  r<ce  J. 

A.  McVickar,  resigned. 
1881,   July  14.    HenryD.  Paine,  A.M.,  M.  D.,  vice  J.  C.  Minor,  absent 
from  the  country. 
[The board  now  (Sept.,  1881),  consists  of  Drs.  Gray,  Watson,  Millard, 
Searle,  H.  M.  Paine,  Belcher,  Bacon,  Talcott  and  H.  D.  Paine,  named 
In  the  order  of  seniority  of  appointment.] 

♦This  board  of  examiners  have  Issued,  in  pamphlet  form,  a  set  of 
Instructions  for  candidates  desiring  to  be  examined,  which  may  be 
obtained  on  application. 


EXAMIKATIOls^S.  147 

Second  board  of  medical  examiners,  appointed  on 
the  recommendation  of  the  Medical  Society  of  the 
State  of  New  York  : 

Date  ot 
Appointment. 
1875,  Jan.   14.    E.  M.  Moore,  M.  D.,  Rochester. 
Alonzo  Clark,  M.  D.,  New  York. 
,  E.  Krackowizer,  M.  D.,  New  York. 

John  P.  Gray,  M.  D.,  Utica. 
S.  O.  Vanderpoel,  M.  D.,  Albany. 
E.  R.  Squibb,  M.  D.,  Brooklyn.    Declined. 
John  Ordronaux,  M.  D.,  New  York. 
A.  Jacobi,  M.  D.,  New  York. 
Thomas  Hun,  M.  D.,  Albany. 

Third  board  of  medical  examiners,  appointed  on 
the  application  of  the  Eclectic  Medical  Society  of  the 
State  of  New  York : 

Date  of 
Appointment. 
1875,   Jan.  14.    J.  Edwin  Danelson,  M.  D.,  Little  Falls. 
Alexander  Wilder,  M.  D.,  New  York. 
Robert  Hamilton,  M.  D.,  Saratoga. 
Herman  Boskowitz,  M,  D.,  Brooklyn. 
David  White,  M.  D.,  Ithaca. 
Robert  S.  Newton,  M.  D.,  New  York. 
Orin  Davis,  M.  D.,  Attica. 

Rules  ai^d  Regulations  Established  by  the 
Regents  of  the  Un"iversity,  Sejjtem'ber  5,  1873. 
1.  Any  person  wishing  to  be  examined  as  author- 
ized by  the  fifth  section  of  the  act  referred  to  [Laivs 
<?/'1872,  ch.  746;  ante,  p.  8.],  after  he  shall  have 
made  the  payment  required  in  said  section,  shall  ap- 
ply in  writing  to  the  chancellor  for  such  examination, 
and  shall  also  present  to  him  in  writing  the  prelimin- 
ary proofs  as  to  age,  character,  attainments  and  pro- 
fessional studies  required  by  the  said  act. 


148  MEDICAL 

2.  If  the  proofs  thus  presented  be  satisfactory  to  the 
chancellor,  he  shall  give  his  certificate  thereof  in 
writing,  to  be  filed  with  such  proof  in  the  oflfice  of  the 
regents,  and  grant  an  order  addressed  to  an}^  board 
of  examiners  appointed  under  the  said  act,  authoriz- 
ing such  board  to  examine  such  candidate  as  required 
by  the  said  act  and  these  rules,  and  to  furnish  to  the 
regents  of  the  university,  in  writing,  a  full  report  of 
such  examination  and  the  opinions  of  the  examiners, 
within  such  time,  to  be  named  in  said  order,  not 
exceeding  three  months  from  the  date  thereof,  as  the 
chancellor  may  deem  to  be  reasonable,  which  time 
may  be  extended  on  satisfactory  cause  being  shown 
to  him. 

3.  The  chairman  of  the  board  of  examiners  shall 
convene  the  board  within  thirty  days  after  receiving 
the  said  order,  giving  at  least  ten  days'  notice  in  writ- 
ing to  its  members,  and  also  to  the  president  of  each 
of  the  State  medical  societies  of  this  State,  of  the 
time  and  place  of  meeting,  and  of  the  name  of  the 
candidate  or  candidates  to  be  examined. 

4.  The  said  board  may,  from  time  to  time,  make  such 
rules  in  writing,  as  to  the  attendance  of  its  members 
and  for  its  own  conduct  and  government,  as  it  may 
deem  proper  ;  a  copy  of  which  rules  shall  be  filed 
with  the  secretary  of  the  university,  and  all  such 
rules  shall  be  subject  to  repeal,  alteration  or  amend- 
ment by  the  regents. 

5.  The  examination  of  every  candidate  shall  be 
open  to  the  members  of  the  medical  profession,  wher- 


EXAMIi^ATIOKS.  149 

ever  resident,  and  to  the  regents  of  the  university. 
It  shall  be  conducted  by  examination  papers,  to  be 
furnished  by  the  regents  to  the  chairman  of  the 
board  of  examiners  in  sealed  envelopes,  in  sets  of 
not  more  than  live  questions  in  each  envelope.  At 
the  commencement  of  the  examination,  the  chairman 
of  the  board  shall  deliver  one  of  said  envelopes,  so 
sealed  to  each  member  of  the  board  present  and  to 
each  candidate,  and  shall  thereupon  fix  and  declare 
the  time  to  be  allowed  in  which  to  answer  that  set  of 
questions.  The  questions  shall  be  the  same  for  all 
the  candidates  at  the  same  examination. 

The  answer  shall  bo  in  writing  in  the  following 
form  : 

Answer  of  A.   B.  to  the   Question's    Hereto 
Annexed. 

To  the  first  question  he  says  [here  insert  answer], 
and  so  on  through  all  the  questions. 

AYhen  the  candidate  shall  have  completed  his  an- 
swers to  all  the  questions,  or  the  time  fixed  by  the 
chairman  shall  have  expired,  he  shall  sign  his  name 
to  the  answers  and  annex  thereto  the  questions,  and 
deliver  the  same  to  the  chairman,  and  so  on  with 
other  sets  of  questions  until  the  whole  examination 
be  completed. 

The  examiners  may  also  examine  the  candidates  by 
oral  questions  after  the  paper  examination  is  con- 
cluded ;  but  each  oral  question  shall  be  correctly 
written  down  at  the  time,  before  it  is  answered,  and 


150  ACADEMIC 

the  answer  thereto  shall  also  be  immediately  written 
down,  and  such  oral  examination,  as  well  as  the  pa- 
per examination,  shall  make  part  of  the  report  to  the 
regents. 

No  candidate  shall,  during  the  time  devoted  to  his 
examination  on  any  one  set  of  questions,  consult  any 
person,  book  or  paper,  or  leave  the  room  in  which 
said  examination  is   conducted. 

6.  Every  member  of  a  board  of  examiners  shall, 
within  twenty  days  after  the  issuing  of  the  order  pro- 
vided for  in  the  second  of  these  rules,  send  to  the 
regents  of  the  university  (addressed  to  the  secretary) 
at  least  fifty  written  questions  proper  to  be  put  to  the 
candidates,  to  be  classified  in  any  way  he  may  deem 
proper.  From  said  questions,  and  others  to  be  pro- 
posed by  the  regents  or  other  persons,  the  regents 
shall  select  the  questions  to  be  put  to  the  candidates 
as  aforesaid. 

7.  Any  candidate  who  shall  be  commended  for  dis- 
tinguished merit  iu  the  report  of  the  examining 
board,  and  who  shall  also  present  to  the  regents  a, 
dissertation  on  some  medical  topic,  written  in  either 
Latin  or  English,  may,  if  the  regents  so  direct,  re- 
ceive special  notice  of  such  merit  at  the  University 
Convocation  next  succeeding  his  examination. 

8.  The  degree  of  *'  Doctor  of  Medicine  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  the  State  of  New  York,"  which  may  be 
granted  iu  conformity  to  the  said  act,  will  be  con- 
ferred in  form,  either  at  a  meeting  of  the  regents,  or 
at  the  then  next  University  Convocation. 


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9.  The  secretary  of  the  regents  is  hereby  author- 
ized, out  of  the  moneys  which  may  be  received  from 
candidates,  pursuant  to  the  fifth  and  seventli  sections 
of  the  said  act,  to  pay  in  the  first  place  all  proper 
incidental  expenses  attending  the  examination  and 
proceedings  aforesaid,  to  be  audited  by  him,  and  then 
the  actual  traveling  expenses  of  the  examiners,  or 
such  part  thereof  as  the  fund  may  warrant,  to  be 
audited  in  like  manner. 

10.  Any  vacancy  which  may  occur  in  any  board 
of  examiners,  when  the  regents  are  not  in  session, 
may  be  filled  by  the  chancellor  by  an  appointment,  to 
continue  in  force  until  the  next  meeting  of  the  re- 
gents. 

11.  The  secretary  of  the  regents  is  directed  to 
communicate  a  copy  of  these  rules  and  regulations  to 
the  president  of  each  of  the  State  medical  societies 
and  medical  colleges  in  the  State. 

II.  Academic  Examinations.^ 

1.  The  Regents  have  under  authority  of  law  estab- 
lished, in  the  academies  under  their  visitation,  a  sys- 
tem of  examinations,  for  the  purpose  of  determining 
the  ratio  in  which  the  income  of  the  literature  fund 
shall  be  distributed,  and  for  the  purpose  of  fixing  a 
suitable  grade  for  such  studies  as  may  be  pursued 
therein. 

2.  The  preliminary  examination  is  designed  to  de- 
termine what  scholars  are  to  be  classed  as  academic 

*For  the  statutes  relating  to  these  examinations,  see  page  8. 


152  ACADEMIC 

scholars  and  be  counted  in  the  distribution  of  the 
literature  fund.  The  subjects  of  examination  are, 
arithmetic,  geography,  English  grammar  and  spelling. 
It  is  intended  to  mark  the  point  at  which  scholars 
may  be  considered  as  having  attained  to  such  a  knowl- 
edge of  these  subjects  as  may  be  acquired  in  the  com- 
mon schools  of  the  State,  and  as  being  qualified  to 
enter  upon  classical  studies  or  the  higher  branches  of 
English.  A  certificate  is  issued  to  such  as  havo 
passed  this  examination. 

3.  The  advanced  examinations  are  held  on  such 
subjects  as  are  required  for  admission  to  the  colleges 
of  the  State,  and  on  such  other  subjects  as  are  usu- 
ally pursued  in  schools  of  the  academic  grade.  They 
are  therefore  arranged  for  two  courses  of  study,  the 
college  entrance  course  and  the  academic  course.  In 
the  college  entrance  course  a  certificate  of  progress, 
called  the  intermediate  certificate,  is  given  for  algebra, 
plane  geometry,  American  history,  and  Latin  through 
four  books  of  Caesar's  Commentaries,  and  the  Regents^ 
diploma  when  the  whole  group  of  college  entrance 
studies  is  finished.  In  the  academic  course  the 
intermediate  certificate  is  given  for  algebra,  plane 
geometry,  American  history,  physical  geography,  phy- 
siology and  rhetoric,  and  the  Kegents'  diploma  for 
eight  additional  subjects — four  to  be  chosen  from 
group  I,  and  four  from  group  II.  It  is  allowed  in 
the  latter  course  to  substitute  language  studies  for 
other  subjects,  as  follows,  viz.  :  Caesar's  Commenta- 
ries, including  the  elements  of  Latin  for  any  threo 


EXAMINATIONS.  153 

subjects,  Virgil's  ^neid,  French  translated  at  siglit, 
or  German  translated  at  sight,  for  any  two  subjects, 
and  Sallust's  Catiline,  Virgil's  Eclogues,  or  Cicero's 
Orations,  for  one  subject,  except  that  for  at  least  two 
subjects  in  group  I,  and  two  in  group  II,  and  for 
algebra,  geometry  and  American  history,  no  substitu- 
tion will  be  allowed . 

Intermediate. — Algebra,  American  history,  physical 
geography,    physiology,     plane    geometry,    rhetoric. 

Group  I. — Book-keeping,  botany,  geology,  history 
of  Greece,  moral  philosophy,  political  economy,  science 
of  government,  zoology. 

Group  II. — Astronomy,  chemistry,  English  litera- 
ture, history  of  England,  mental  philosophy,  physics, 
plane  trigonometry,  history  of  Kome. 

College  entrance. — Algebra^  geometry  and  American 
history  (see  col.  1) ;  Caesar's  Com.,  books  1-4;  Sal- 
lust's  Catiline;  Virgil's  /Eneid,  books  1-6 ;  Virgil's 
Eclogues,  Cicero,  six  orations;  Latin  composition, 
Xenophon's  Anabasis,  books  1-5  ;  Homer's  Iliad, 
books  1-3. 

Substitutes. —  French  translation,  German  transla- 
tion. 

4.  The  candidates  who  may  be  admitted  to  the  pre- 
liminary examination  are :  First,  scholars  in  the 
academy  who  are  presumed  to  be  prepared.  Second, 
"Any  scholar  from  any  common  school  who  may 
apply  for  such  examination,  bearing  the  certificate 
of  the  principal  teacher,  or  of  any  trustee  of  such 
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154  ACADEMIC 

school,  that,  in  his  judgment,  such  scholar  is  quali- 
fied to  pass  the  said  examination."  {Lazvs  of  1S73, 
chap.  642,  §  4.) 

5.  Candidates  for  the  [advanced  examinations  must 
be  members  of  the  academy  or  academic  department 
under  the  visitation  of  the  Regents  in  which  the  ex- 
amination takes  place.  Candidates  are  permitted  to 
take  the  advanced  examinat^ns  without  having 
passed  the  preliminary,  but  no  such  candidate  can 
receive  any  certificate  or  diploma  for  advanced  sub- 
jects unless  he  has  already  received  the  preliminary 
certificate. 

By  an  ordinance  passed  January  14,  1881,  the  Re- 
gents have  directed  that  the  privileges  of  the  advanced 
academic  examinations,  held  by  the  Regents  in  the 
several  academies  under  their  visitation,  be  extended 
to  candidates  not  in  actual  attendance  at  such  acad- 
emies, under  the  following  restrictions  and  conditions: 
First,  that  such  candidates  shall  be  registered  in  some 
one  of  the  academies  under  the  visitation  of  the  Re- 
gents, and  shall  pursue  their  studies  under  the  super- 
vision of  the  principal  thereof  ;  second,  that  such  can- 
didates shall  pass  their  examinations  in  the  several  sub- 
jects at  the  same  time  and  under  the  same  regulations 
as  the  candidates  in  attendance  at  such  academies ; 
third,  that  such  candidates  so  registered  and  examined 
at  any  academy  shall  not  be  counted  in  the  claims  of 
such  academy  for  its  share  in  the  distribution  of  the 
literature  fund;  but  such  academy  shall  be  entitled 
to  receive  from  each  candidate  a  fee  of  one  dollar  at 


EXAMIlfATIONS.  155 

the  time  of  registration,  and   a  further  fee  of  one 
dollar  for  each  subject  entered  for  examination. 

6.  The  examinations  are  to  be  held  under  the  direc- 
tion of  a  committee  of  at  least  three  persons  other  than 
teachers  in  the  school,  either  ladies  or  gentlemen,  or 
both,  appointed  by  the  trustees  of  the  academy  or 
academical  department,  with  the  co-operation  of  the 
principal,  in  confoifnity  with  instructions  issued  by 
the  Chancellor  and  Secretary  of  the  University.  The 
same  committee,  if  more  convenient,  may  take  charge 
of  both  the  preliminary  and  advanced  examinations. 
The  chief  duty  of  the  committee,  by  virtue  of  accept- 
ing this  trust,  is  to  see  that  the  instructions  are  ob- 
served in  every  particular.  If  any  institution  cannot 
command  the  services  of  a  capable  and  efficient  com- 
mittee, and  the  constant  presence  of  at  least  one  mem- 
ber, it  must   forego  the  privilege  of  the  examination. 

7.  Sets  of  printed  questions  in  all  the  subjects  of 
examination  will  be  issued  at  each  examination. 
These  will  be  sent  (generally  by  express,  for  parcels 
weighing  more  than  four  ounces,  prepaid  to  destina- 
tion) to  the  chairman  of  the  examining  committee 
the  week  before  the  examination,  provided  the  num- 
ber of  sets  of  questions  needed  and  the  names  of  the 
committee  be  seasonably  furnished.  A  circular,  ask- 
ing how  many  sets  of  questions  will  be  needed,  will 
be  sent  to  each  academic  institution  subject  to  the 
visitation  of  the  Regents,  in  advance  of  each  exami- 
nation; but  in  the  event  of  its  non -receipt  at  least  ten 
days  before  the  examination,  the  Secretary  of  the  Re- 


156  ACADEMIC 

gents  should  be  informed,  by  letter  or  otherwise,  how 
many  question  papers  are  required.  The  chairman 
of  the  committee  is  to  retain  the  questions  in  his  own 
possession  until  the  beginning  of  each  session  of  the 
examination. 

8.  Candidates  are  to  be  allowed  the  prescribed  time 
and  no  more  for  the  completion  of  their  answers  ;  they 
are  not  to  bs  allowed  to  give  or  teceive  aid  ;  and  ab 
the  expiration  of  the  allotted  time,  they  must  sub- 
scribe to  a  declaration  that  prior  to  the  session  they 
had  no  knowledge  of  the  questions  to  be  proposed, 
and  that  they  neither  gave  nor  received  aid  in  an- 
swering them. 

9.  The  answer  papers  of  the  candidates  are  to  be  ex- 
amined by  the  committee  or  by  the  principal  and  other 
teachers,  who  are  to  determine  whether  they  are»  in 
their  judgment,  entitled  to  the  required  amount  of 
credit  to  be  passed.  These  answer  papers  so  approved 
are  to  be  transmitted  to  the  office  of  the  Regents, 
accompanied  by  statements  properly  attested  by  the 
committee  and  the  principal. 

10.  All  answer  papers  sent  to  the  Regents,  as 
above  required,  are  re-examined  under  their  direction, 
and  such  as  are  not  conformable  to  the  instructions, 
or  are  found  deficient  or  unsatisfactory,  are  disallowed. 
Notice  of  the  result  of  this  revision  is  sent  to  the  prin- 
cipal. Pass  cards,  showing  the  several  subjects  in  the 
advanced  examination  which  have  been  satisfactorily 
passed,  are  issued  to  the  candidates. 

11.  To  the  candidates  who  have  satisfactorily  passed 
in  arithmetic,  English  grammar,  geography  and  spell- 


EXAMINATIONS.  157 

ing,  the  Regents'  certificate  of  academic  scholarship 
is  issued,  authorizing  the  admission  of  the  holder,  with- 
out further  examination,  into  the  academic  class  in 
any  academy  subject  to  the  visitation  of  the  Regents. 
It  is  required  that  the  answer  papers  of  each  candidate 
in  all  of  the  above  subjects  be  forwarded  at  once,  so 
that  the  whole  set  may  be  approved  at  once;  but  it  is 
allowed  that  each  subject  may  be  taken  separately, 
provided  that  when  a  period  of  three  years  has  elapsed 
since  any  subject  was  passed  before  all  are  completed, 
such  subject  must  be  taken  again. 

12.  The  Regents'  intermediate  certificate  and 
the  Regents'  academic  diploma  are  issued  whenever 
the  candidate  has  passed  in  the  subjects  of  the  ad- 
vanced examination  required  by  section  three.  The 
diploma  is  issued  under  the  seal  of  the  University 
and  will  show  the  several  subjects  in  which  the  can- 
didate has  passed. 


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CHAPTER  XYIII. 

FOBMS    FOR     ANNUAL    REPORTS     OF     COLLEGES     AND 
ACADEMIES. 

To  facilitate,  as  far  as  possible,  the  preparation  of 
the  annual  reports  required  from  the  colleges  and  acad- 
emies subject  to  their  visitation,  the  Regents  have  pre- 
pared suitable  printed  forms,  duplicate  copies  of  which 
are  sent  to  each  institution,  to  be  filled  and  returned 
on  or  before  October  1st  of  each  year,  as  required  by 
law. 

The  principal  matters  to  be  reported  upon  by  the 
colleges  and  academies,  respectively,  are  the  follow- 
ing :* 

I.  Colleges. 

1.  Calendar  of  the  principal  events  during  the  last 
collegiate  year. 

2.  List  of  the  officers  and  members  of  the  board  of 
trustees,  with  their  residences. 

3.  The  officers  and  members  of  the  faculty  and 
other  instructors,  with  the  department  of  instruction 
and  the  compensation  of  each. 

4.  Number  and  classification  of  students  in  each 
department,  according  to  classes,  residence  in  this 
and  other  States,  and  sex. 

♦Two  or  more  copies  of  annual  and  triennial  catalogues,  and  of 
other  publications  by  any  institution,  should  be  sent,  at  the  time  of 
their  issue,  to  the  office  of  the  Regents. 


COLLEGES.  159 

5.  Degrees  conferred  by  the  trustees  during  tlie 
year,  and  from  the  origin  of  the  institution: 

1st.  Number  receiving  the  Baccalaureate  degree  in 
arts  and  in  science,  males  and  females, 

2d.  Number  receiving  the  Master's  degree  in  course, 
in  arts  and  in  science,  males  and  females. 

3d.  Recipients  of  honorary  degrees,  name,  residence 
and  degree  of  each  recipient. 

6.  College  honors,  prizes,  scholarships,  etc.: 

1st.  College  honors  ;  title  of  each  honor  and  names 
of  recipients. 

2d.  Prizes,  scholarships,  etc. ;  title  and  value  of 
each  and  names  of  recipients. 

7.  Subjects  of  study: 

1st.  Requirements  for  admission,  in  Latin,  Greek 
and  modern  languages,  mathematics,  and  any  other 
subjects. 

2d.  Studies  of  under-graduate  classes  ;  number  of 
lectures  and  exercises  for  each  class  during  the  year 
in  each  of  the  following  departments  of  courses  in 
arts  and  in  science,  to  wit  :  Ancient  languages,  modern 
languages,  English  language  and  literature,  mathe- 
matical sciences,  physical  sciences,  natural  sciences,  his- 
tory and  political  sciences,  and  philosophical  sciences. 

8.  Grounds  and  buildings: 

1st.  Dimensions,  character  and  estimated  value  of 
grounds. 

2d.  Dimensions,  character  and  uses  of  the  several 
buildings,  and  their  estimated  value,  including  fur- 
niture. 


160  REPORTS   OF 

9.  Educational  collections. 

1st.  Library  ;  number  of  volumes  added  during  the 
jear,  present  whole  number  of  volumes  and  their 
estimated  value. 

2d.  Apparatus;  physical,  chemical,  and  of  any 
other  kind,  with  estimated  value  of  each  kind. 

3d.  Collections  other  than  the  above  ;  name  and 
estimated  value  of  each. 

4th.  Any  additional  statements  relative  to  collec- 
tions. 

10.  College  property ;  summary  of  values  of  grounds 
and  buildings,  educational  collections,  investments  in 
United  States  and  State  stocks,  corporate  bonds  and 
stocks,  bonds  and  mortgages,  real  estate  other  than 
college  grounds  and  buildings,  and  any  other  prop- 
erty; also,  debts  at  end  of  year,  and  net  property. 
Any  additions  to  the  property  during  the  last  year  are 
to  be  reported,  together  with  any  benefactions  re- 
ceived, the  names  of  donors,  and  the  amount,  objects 
and  conditions  of  each  donation. 

11.  Revenue  and  expenditures: 

1st.  Revenue,  from  tuition  and  other  receipts  from 
students,  from  income  of  invested  funds,  and  from  all 
other  sources. 

2d.  Expenditures,  for  salaries  paid  for  instruction, 
for  prizes,  scholarships,  etc.,  for  gratuitous  aid  to 
students,  for  improvements  and  repairs,  for  fuel  and 
other  incidentals,  for  interest  on  debt,  and  for  all 
other  purposes. 

12.  Estimated  expenses  of  students,  for  tuition  fees 
per  year,  and  for  board  at  the  average  price  per  week. 


ACADEMIES.  161 

13.  Additional  information;  such,  for  example,  as 
changes  in  the  organization  and  plans  of  the  insti- 
tution, the  erection  of  buildings,  and  increased  facili- 
ties for  instruction. 

14,  Conclusion  and  authentication  of  report. 
[Modifications  of  this  general  form  are  provided  for 

medical  and  law  schools  and  departments.] 

II.  Academies. 

1.  Ground  for  academy  buildings  ,  value  as  last 
reported,  subsequent  changes,  if  any,  and  present 
value. 

2.  Academy  buildings  ;  changes,  if  any,  since  last 
report,  and  present  value. 

3.  Library;  number  of  volumes  reported  last  year 
and  added  since ;  original  cost  and  estimated  present 
value. 

4.  Philosophical  apparatus  ;  original  cost  and 
estimated  value,  as  reported  last  year,  and  at  the 
present  time,  including  specified  additions  during  the 
last  year. 

5.  Certificate  of  committee  (other  than  teachers) 
as  to  condition  of  library  and  apparatus,  in  regard  to 
books  and  articles  being  present  in  proper  state  for 
use,  provided  with  suitable  rooms  and  cases  for  their 
preservation,  and  being  used  with  due  care. 

6.  Title  to  property  ;  whether  vested  in  trustees 
and  absolute,  or  in  any  way  conditional. 

7.  Other  academic  property ;  value  of  bonds  and 
mortgages,  government  or  other  stocks,  notes  receiv- 
able, tuition  bills  collectible,  furniture,  real  estate  other 

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162  REPORTS   OF 

than  academy  lot,  cash  in  treasurer's  hands,  and  other 
property,  if  any,  not  ah-eady  enumerated. 

8.  Debts  and  incumbrances,  specified  as  to  kind 
and  amount. 

9.  Summary  statement  of  property,  and  net  value 
thereof. 

10.  Statement  as  to  amount  of  money,  if  any,  raised 
by  the  trustees  and  granted  by  the  Kegents  for  the 
purchase  of  books  and  apparatus,  and  how  the  same 
has  been  expended. 

11.  Revenue  and  expenditures: 

1st.  Eevenue,  from  tuition,  interest  or  income  of 
property,  literature  fund  and  other  allowances  by  the 
State,  subscriptions  for  purchase  of  books  and 
apparatus,  boarding  departments,  and  from  any 
other  sources  not  already  named. 

2d.  Expenditures,  for  instruction,  debts,  and  in- 
terest on  debts,  rent,  repairs,  fuel  and  other  incidentals, 
dividends  (if  any)  on  capital  stock,  books  and  appa- 
ratus, expenses  of  boarding  departments,  and  any 
other  purposes  not  already  enumerated. 

3d.  Certificate  of  auditing  committee. 

12.  Teachers ;  number  employed,  males  and 
females,  and  of  those  who  make  teaching  a  permanent 
employment,  also  the  names  and  professional  educa- 
tion of  such  teachers,  the  time  spent  in  teaching  and  the 
department  of  instruction  and  annual  salary  of  each. 

13.  Subjects  of  study  pursued  and  text-books  used, 
each  designated  by  the  author's  name. 

14.  Number  of  scholars  classified  as  full  academic, 
partial  academic,  and  preparatory,  and  according  to 


ACADEMIES.  163 

attendance  by  terms;  also,  the  whole  number  of 
different  scholars  during  the  year  (males  and  females), 
the  number  pursuing  classical  studies,  preparing  for 
college  and  entering  college,  and  the  number  cLiimed 
as  entitled  to  be  counted  in  the  distribution  of  the 
literature  fund,  according  to  the  annexed  principaFs 
schedule. 

15.  Academic  terms  and  vacations;  number  and 
length  of  terms  and  vacations,  with  dates  of  beginning 
and  ending  of  each  term. 

16.  Expenses  of  students;  rates  of  tuition  per 
annum  and  average  of  same ;  also,  average  price  of 
board  per  week,  with  total  for  tuition  and  board  per 
annum. 

17.  Officers  of  board  of  trustees. 

18.  Conclusion  and  authentication  of  report. 

19.  Affidavit  of  presiding  officer  of  trustees  as  to 
correctness  of  annual  report,  etc. 

The  principal's  schedule,  containing  the  names,  ages 
and  studies  of  scholars  claimed  as  entitled  to  be 
counted  in  the  annual  distribution  of  the  literature 
fund,  and  a  list  of  scholars  receiving  intermediate 
certificates  and  diplomas  of  the  advanced  academic 
examination,  is  attached  to  the  trustees'  annual  report, 
a  suitable  blank  form  for  such  schedule  being  also 
provided  by  the  Eegents. 

[A  modified  form  of  report  is  provided  for  the  free 
academies  and  academical  departments  of  union 
schools,  which  in  general  are  not  required  to  report  on 
matters  included  under  heads  1,  6,  7,  8,  9,  of  the 
foregoing  form.] 


164  INSTRUCTIOIT  OF 


CHAPTER  XIX. 

INSTRUCTION   OF   COMMON   SCHOOL  TEACHERS. 

The  designation  of  institutions  to  give  instruction, 
under  the  provisions  of  chapter  425,  sections  2-5,  of 
the  Laws  of  1877  (pp.  46,  47,  ante)^  will  ordinarily  be 
at  or  before  the  semi-annual  meeting  of  the  Regents 
in  July,  on  due  application  by  the  trustees  in  the  fol- 
lowing form,  with  answers  to  the  several  questions  : 

To  the  Regents  of  the  University  of  the  State  of  New 
York: 

The  trustees  of  hereby  apply  to  the 

Regents  of  the  University  for  appointment  to  instruct 
a  class  in  the  science  and  practice  of  common  school 
teaching,  during  one  term  of  the  academic  year  18  , 
under  the  course  prescribed  by  the  said  Regents,  as 
provided  by  law.  lu  support  of  this  application,  the 
aforesaid  trustees  respectfully  represent,  in  answer  to 
the  inquiries  made  in  this  form  of  application,  as 
follows : 

Q.  1.  How  many  townships  (if  any),  besides  your 
own,  will  probably  be  represented  in  the  teachers* 
class,  if  organized  under  appointment? 

Q.  2.  Can  you  rely  upon  the  school  commissioner 
of  the  district  to  aid  in  securing  suitable  members  of 
the  class  and  in  visitation  of  the  class  during  the 
course  of  instruction  ? 

Q.  3.  Wliat  is  tlio  probable  number  of  suitable 
scholars,  according  to  tlie  standard  prescribed  by  the 
Regents  in  their  instructions,  who  will  apply  for 
admission  to  the  class  for  at  least  ten  weeks  ? 


COMMON"  SCHOOL  TEACHERS.  165 

Q.  4.  Daring  which  third  of  the  year  (fall,  winter 
or  spring)  will  it  be  desirable  to  instruct  the  class  ? 

Q.  5.  How  much  time  will  be  given  to  the  special 
and  separate  instruction  of  the  class,  and  by  whom : 
the  principal,  or  an  assistant,  or  both  ? 

Signed  by  officers  of  the  Board. 
Dated,  ,18 

The  funds  at  the  disposal  of  the  Regents  not  being 
sufficient  to  provide  for  the  desirable  number  of  full 
classes  of  twenty-five  scholars  for  a  term  of  thirteen 
weeks,  the  time  will  be  limited  to  ten  weeks  when  the 
class  is  full,  making  a  maximum  of  two  hundred  and 
fifty  weeks. 

When  the  number  in  the  class  is  less  than  twenty- 
five,  the  time  may  be  extended,  not  to  exceed  thirteen 
weeks  all  in  one  term,  the  whole  number  of  weeks 
not  to  exceed  two  hundred  and  fifty. 

As  the  statute  requires  at  least  ten  scholars  in  at- 
tendance not  less  than  ten  weeks  each,  the  minimum 
for  which  allowan«ce  can  be  made  is  one  hundred 
weeks. 

Provisional  appointments  are  sometimes  made,  with 
the  understanding  that  payment  for  instruction  given 
is  contingent  upon  the  sufficiency  of  the  appropria- 
tion, after  the  regular  appointment  shall  have  been 
provided  for. 


166 


INSTRUCTION  OF 


Numher  of  Institutions  luhich  may  regularly  he  ap- 
pointed  in  each  of  the  folloioing  Counties  to  instruct 
Common  School  Teachers. 


Albany 1 

Allegany 3 

Broome 2 

Cattaraugus 3 

Cayuga 2 

Chautauqua 3 

Chemung 1 

Chenango 3 

Clinton ; . .  .  2 

Columbia 1 

Cortland 2 

Delaware 3 

Dutchess 1 

Erie 3 

Essex 2 

Franklin 2 

Fulton 1 

Genesee 1 

Greene 1 

Herkimer 2 

Jefferson ,  3 

Lewis 1 

Livingston 2 

Madison 2 

Monroe 2 

Montgomery 1 

Niagara 2 


Oneida 4 

Onondaga 3 

Ontario 2 

Orange 2 

Orleans 1 

Oswego 3 

Otsego 3 

Queens 1 

Eensselaer 1 

St.  Lawrence  ........  4 

Saratoga 2 

Schoharie 2 

Schuyler 1 

Seneca 1 

Steuben 4 

Suffolk 2 

Sullivan 2 

Tioga 2 

Tompkins 2 

Ulster 2 

AYarren 2 

Washington 3 

Wayne 3 

Wyoming 3 

Yates 1 


Total, 


108 


COMMON  SCHOOL  TEACHERS.  167 


INSTRUCTIONS. 


1.  When  an  appointment  to  instruct  a  teachers' 
class  has  been  received,  general  and  seasonable  notice 
of  the  organization  of  the  class  must  be  given,  that  all 
in  the  vicinity  who  desire  it  may  have  opportunity  to 
apply  for  admission.  Members  of  the  class  are  to  be 
selected  from  the  applicants,  by  the  joint  action  of  the 
trustees  and  principal,  who  are  to  ask  counsel  and  aid 
from  the  school  commissioner  of  the  district  in  secur- 
ing suitable  applicants. 

2.  The  following  conditions  of  admission  to  the 
class  must  be  observed  : 

(a)  The  candidates  must  have  attained  the  age,  if 
males,  of  eighteen,  and  if  females,  of  sixteen  years. 

(b)  They  should  be  residents  of  the  county  in 
which  the  academy  is  situated  (or  the  next  adjacent 
county  of  this  State,  when  the  institution  is  near  the 
county  line),  and  fairly  distributed  among  the  several 
townships  from  which  the  ordinary  patronage  of  the 
school  is  derived. 

(c)  They  must  have  passed  the  Regents'  prelimi- 
nary examination,  or  must  give  promise  of  being  able 
to  pass  said  examination  before  the  close  of  the  course. 

(d)  They  must  subscribe,  in  good  faith,  the  follow- 
ing declaration,  and  the  trustees  and  principal  must 
be  satisfied  that  the  candidates  are  honest  in  making 


168  INSTRUCTION  OF 

it,  and  that  they  have  the  moral   character,  talents 
and  aptness  necessary  to  success  in  teaching: 

**  We,  the  subscribers,  hereby  declare  that  our 
object  in  asking  admission  to  the  teachers'  class  of 
academy  is  to  prepare  ourselves  more  thoroughly 
for  the  important  duty  of  teaching  in  the  public 
schools  of  the  State,  and  that  it  is  our  intention  to 
become  teachers." 

(e)  No  applicant  may  be  admitted  to  the  full  priv- 
ileges of  the  class  who  cannot  comply  with  and  be 
reasonably  expected  to  fulfil  all  the  conditions  pre- 
scribed, and  to  devote  the  requisite  time  to  the  special 
work  of  the  class. 

3.  The  teachers' class  must  be  organized  and  known 
as  a  special  and  distinct  class,  the  instruction  of  which, 
so  far  as  it  relates  to  the  preparation  of  its  members 
for  teaching,  must  be  conducted  separately.  Not  less 
than  one  and  a  half  full  hours  of  each  school  day  must 
be  devoted  to  this  separate  and  special  instruction  of 
the  class. 

4.  The  following  subjects  of  study  are  prescribed, 
to  be  pursued  by  the  teachers'  class  : 

Reading  ; 

Spelling; 

Writing  ; 

Arithmetic,  intellectual  and  written; 

English  grammar; 

Geography ; 

United  States  history; 

Science  of  government; 

Principles  of  teaching. 


COMMON  SCHOOL  TEACHERS.  169 

It  is  assumed  that  the  members  of  the  class  are  al- 
ready well  versed  in  the  first  six  of  these  subjects  so 
far  as  a  knowledge  of  them  is  concerned.  United 
States  history  and  science  of  government  may  be 
taken  as  distinct  studies  by  the  class,  or  may  be 
studied  by  the  members  in  connection  with  other 
classes  in  these  subjects  in  the  school. 

The  full  time  of  one  and  a  half  hours  each  day  is  to 
be  occupied  in  drilling  the  class  in  the  methods  of 
giving  instruction  in  the  several  subjects  :  and  oppor- 
tunities, under  proper  supervision  and  guidance, 
must  be  furnished  for  testing  the  skill  and  ability  of 
each  member  by  actual  practice  in  teaching  other 
classes  of  the  school,  or  in  conducting,  by  turns,  the 
exercises  of  the  teachers'  class. 

In  reading,  writing  and  spelling  the  class  should  be 
drilled  with  special  reference  to  the  proper  methods  of 
training  the  scholars  of  a  common  school  in  these 
exercises.  The  chief  aim  should  be  to  cultivate  an 
agreeable  and  effective  style  of  reading  ordinary  prose  ; 
a  neat,  legible  and  ready  business  hand ;  and  the  habit 
of  correct  spelling  in  all  exercises  and  business  con- 
ducted in  writing. 

The  exercises  of  the  class  in  arithmetic,  English 
grammar  and  geography  should  be  of  the  character  of 
"  Institute  drills."  A  programme  for  the  entire  course 
should  be  laid  out,  and  a  definite  number  of  drills  in 
each  subject  arranged.  For  each  of  these  a  topic 
should  be  assigned  ;  thus  in  arithmetic,  (1)  addition 
and  subtraction,  (2)  multiplication  and  division,  (3) 
22 


170  INSTEUCTION  OF 

vulgar  fractions,  (4)  decimal  fractions,  &c.;  in  gram- 
mar, (1)  iiouns  and  pronouns,  (2)  qualifying  words, 
(3)  verbs,  (4)  connecting  words,  (5)  sentences,  &c. ; 
in  geography,  (1)  general  notions  about  the  earth,  (2) 
about  land,  (3)  about  oceans,  (4)  about  rivers,  &c. 
In  this  way  the  principal  topics  which  are  to  be  taught 
in  common  schools  should  bo  taken  up  and  the  best 
methods  of  teaching  them  explained  and  exemplified. 
In  addition  to  this  practical  drill  in  teaching,  the 
class  should  study  some  suitable  manual  as  to  princi- 
ples of  teaching,  with  the  view  of  becoming  familiar 
with  the  best  methods  of  organizing  schools  and 
classes,  maintaining  order  and  discipline,  inspiring 
scholars  with  a  love  of  knowledge,  conducting  exami- 
nations and  general  exercises,  and  enlisting  the  co- 
operation of  trustees,  parents  and  guardians.       » 

5.  If  any  members  of  the  class  have  not  passed  the 
Regents'  preliminary  examination,  or  have  not  at- 
tained such  a  knowledge  of  the  subjects  of  the  course 
as  will,  when  supplemented  by  the  special  drill  above 
described,  enable  them  to  pass  this  examination,  they 
may  be  allowed  to  take  up  such  subjects  outside  of 
the  class  exercises   with  other   classes  of  the  school. 

And  if  any  members  of  the  class  have   time,  afte^ 
faithfully  doing  all  that  is  required  above,  they  may 
be  allowed  to  ptfrsue  such  other  subjects  of   study  as 
will  be  most  profitable,  for  which,  however,  no  tuition 
may  be  charged.    * 

6.  An  examination  on  the  special  work  of  the  class 
must  be  held  at  or  near  the  close  of  the  course  of  in- 
struction, under  such  regulations  as  the  Regents  may 


COMMON  SCHOOL  TEACHERS.  171 

make ;  and  only  those  who  shall  have  passed  the  Ee- 
gents'  preliminary  examination,  and  shall  pass  this 
final  examination,  will  be  allowed  by  the  Regents 
in  apportionments  for  the  instruction  of  common 
school  teachers. 

This  examination  will  be  oral  as  to  reading  and 
spelling  and  written  as  to  other  subjects.  In  arith- 
metic, English  grammar  and  geography  the  examina- 
tion will  pertain  chiefly  to  the  methods  of  teaching 
these  subjects,  but  will  take  for  granted  an  adequate 
knowledge  of  them.  In  United  States  history  and 
science  of  government,  only  such  a  knowledge  will 
be  expected  as  can  be  acquired  during  the  continuance 
of  the  class  ;  and  if  any  member  of  the  class  has  al- 
ready passed  the  Regents'  examination  in  these 
subjects  heshall  be  excused  from  thisfinal  examination. 

7.  The  school  commissioner  of  the  district  in  which 
the  academy  is  situated  must  Li6  informed  when  the 
class  is  to  be  organized  and  when  finally  examined,  fur- 
nished with  a  programme  of  the  class  exercises,  and 
invited  to  make  frequent  visits  and  co-operate  in  se- 
curing the  best  results.  To  this  end  every  facility  for 
observing  the  work  and  testing  tiie  proficiency  of 
each  member  of  the  class  must  be  afforded,  and  any 
counsel  or  official  direction  which  he  may  give  must 
be  duly  regarded. 

8.  The  principal  of  the  academy  is  directed,  as.  soon 
^8  the  class  is  organized,  to  notify  the  Secretary  of 
the  Regents,  stating  the  number  of  pupils  admitted, 
the  plan  of  instruction,  and  when  the  final  examina- 
tion will  be  held.  "*'' 


172  INSTRUCTIOJS^  OF 

9.  Every  iustitution  asking  and  accepting  appoint- 
ment to  instruct  a  teachers'  class  will  be  understood 
to  assent  to  these  instructions,  and  expected  strictly 
to  conform  to  them.  The  object  of  the  statute,  to 
wit,  the  preparation  of  well-qualified  teachers  for  the 
common  schools,  must  be  kept  in  view  ;  and  it  is  ex- 
pected that  the  trustees  and  principals  of  academies 
will  realize  the  obligation  which  they  assume  of  ren- 
dering a  full  equivalent  for  the  liberal  appropriation 
made  by  the  State.  Trustees  of  academies  are  at  lib- 
erty to  designate  the  particular  term  in  which  the 
instruction  is  to  be  given,  unless  the  appointment  is 
made  for  a  particular  term. 

10.  These  instructions  must  bo  read  to  the  class  afc 
its  organization  and  repeatedly  thereafter,  that  all 
may  fully  understand  the  requirements  of  the  Regents, 
and  be  stimulated  to  the  highest  efforts  for  their  reali- 
zation. 

Report  to  the  Regents. 
In  the  report  to  the  Regents  on  the  instruction  of 
the  class,  for  which  blank  forms  will  bo  furnished, 
answers  to  the  following  questions  will  be  required  : 

I.    Ohservance  of  Instructions, 

1.  "Were  the  foregoing  instructions  literally  obeyed? 
State  exceptions  (if  any),  with  reasons. 

II.  Admission  to  the  Class* 

2.  Which  members  of  tho  class  had  already  passed 
the  Regents'  preliminary  examination,  and  which  were 
admitted  on  expectations  as  to  future  proficiency. 


COMMON^   SCHOOL  TEACHERS.  173 

3.  Which  (if  any)  members  of  the  class  took  studies 
additional  to  those  of  the  regular  course  ;  what  were 

those  studies,  and  how  much  was  accomplished  in  each  ? 

4.  Was  tuition  charged  for  any  studies  pursued  ; 
and  (if  so)  why,  and  how  much  ? 

5.  Were  any  of  the  scholars  reported  under  the 
prescribed  age  (males  eighteen  and  females  sixteen), 
and  (if  so)  why  were  they  admitted  to  the  class  ? 

'  III.  Instruction. 

6.  By  whom  was  the  class  instructed  ? 

7.  Were  additional  teachers  employed  for,  or  on 
account  of,  the  instruction  of  this  class  ? 

8.  How  much  time  was  spent  daily,  in  the  separate 
and  distinct  instruction  of  this  class  ? 

What  text-books  were  used,  what  portions  of  each 
were  pursued,  what  was  the  number  and  length  of 
the  exercises,  and  what  was  the  general  method  of 
instruction,  in  each  of  the  following  branches  ? 
9.  Reading  —  principles  and  exercises. 

10.  Spelling. 

11.  Writing  —  system  and  practice. 

12.  Arithmetic  —  intellectual  and  written. 

13.  English  grammar. 

14.  Geography. 

15.  United  States  history. 

16.  Science  of  government. 

17.  Principles  of  teaching. 

18.  Other  subjects  (if  any)  included  in  the  course 
of  instruction. 

19.  Were  the  members  of  the  class  exercised  in  the 


174  IJSSTKUCTIOK   OF  TEACHERS. 

instruction  and  governmeDt  of  other  classes  in  the 
school,  or  by  turns  in  their  own  class,  or  both,  and 
to  what  extent? 

20.  Which  scholars  (if  any)  w^ere  absent  during 
any  part  of  the  course  of  instruction,  how  long,  and 
for  what  reason  ? 

21.  Was  the  time  lost  by  absence  made  up  in  any 
way ;  and  (if  so)  how,  and  to  what  extent  ? 

IV,   Official  Visitation  and  Examination, 

22.  Was  the  school  commissioner  of  the  district 
notified  of  the  time  of  the  proposed  organization, 
regular  instruction  and  final  examination,  of  the 
class,  and  to  what  extent  did  he  co-operate  ? 

23.  Was  the  class  visited  by  other  commissioners.. 
or  by  any  other  persons  in  an  official  capacity  ?  If 
80,  mention  the  persons,  and  state  any  important 
results  of  such  visitations. 

24.  What  was  the  character  and  what  were  the 
results  of  the  final  examination  :  what  school  officers 
were  present ;  and  to  what  extent  did  they  take  part 
in  such  examination  ? 

V.  Certificates, 

25.  Which  scholars  (if  any)  hold  a  commissioner's 
certificate,  and  of  what  grade,  respectively  ? 

VI.  Employment, 

26.  Which  scholars  (if  any)  had  already  taught 
school,  when  admitted  to  this  class  ? 

27.  Which  scholars  (if  any)  are  at  the  date  of  this 
report  engaged  in  teacliing,  or  are  under  engagement 
to  teach,  and  at  what  wages  ? 


HONORARY    DEGREES.  175 


CHAPTER  XX, 

HONORARY   DEGREES. 

§  1.  All  applications  or  recommendations  for  hon- 
orary degrees  to  be  granted  by  the  Board  of  Regents 
shall  be  in  writing,  and  shall  bear  the  signature  of  at 
least  two  Regents,  as  approving,  recommending  or 
offering  the  same. —  [Resolutioii  of  Oct.  14,  1851. 

§  2.  All  nominations  for  degrees  shall  be  referred 
to  the  committee  on  degrees;  but  no  such  nomination 
shall  be  acted  on  until  at  least  one  month  after  it 
shall  have  been  made. —  [Besolution  of  July  9,  1857. 

§  8.  The  following  is  a  list  of  the  honorary  degrees 
thus  far  conferred  by  the  Regents  of  the  University: 

Doctor  of  Laics.     (LL.  D.) 

1792.     Robert  R.  Livingston. 

William  Patterson. 
1829 .     William  Alexander  Duer. 
1834.     Benjamin  Franklin  Butler. 
1844.     William  Learned  Marcy. 

1849.  Alexander  H.  Stevens. 
Harvey  Prindle  Peet. 
Salem  Town, 

1850.  Joseph  Henry. 

1851.  Valentine  Mott. 
1854.     John  McLean,  D.  D. 
1857.     Mark  Hopkins,  D.  D. 

1878.  Peter  Cooper. 

1879.  Thurlow  Weed. 

1881.     Martin  Brewer  Anderson. 


176  HONORARY 

Doctor  of  Civil  Law.    (D.  0.  L.) 

1873.  William  Beach  Lawrence. 
Doctor  of  Literature.    (L.  H.  D.) 

1864.  George  Ticknor. 
John  Lothrop  Motley. 

1865 .  Charles  Murray  Nairne. 

1869.  Benjamin  Nicholas  Martin,  D.  D. 
Edward  North. 

1870.  Goldwin  Smith. 
William  Cullen  Bryant. 
Horatio  Seymour. 

1871.  Tayler  Lewis. 
William  Dexter  Wilson. 

1872.  Frederick  Augustus  Porter  Barnard. 

1874.  Charles  Davies. 

Doctor  of  Philosophy.    (Ph.  D.) 

1860.  Philip  P.  Carpenter, 

1862.  David  Henry  Cochran. 

1864.  David  Murray. 

1865.  Alonzo  Crittenden. 

1869.  Noah  Turner  Clarke. 
Malcolm  McVicar. 

1870.  Emerson  John  Hamilton. 
Joel  Dorman  Steele. 

1872.  Joseph  Elijah  King. 

1873.  Jonathan  Allen. 
Alonzo  Flack. 

1874.  Cecil  Flavel  Fetch  Bancroft. 
Daniel  Johnson  Pratt. 
Albert  Barnes  Watkins. 

1875.  Edward  Austin  Sheldon. 
Homer  Baxter  Sprague. 

1877.     John  Howard  Van  Amringe. 

John  Winthrop  Chandler. 
1879.     John  Edwin  Bradley. 


DEGREES.  177 

1879.  Stephen  Gale  Taylor. 

1880.  Merrill  Edwards  Gates. 
Daniel  Strobel  Martin. 
Ray  Tliomas  Spencer. 
Doctor  of  Medicine,    (M.  D.) 

1812.     Oliver  0.  Comstock. 
William  Kirkpatrick. 
Andrew  Morton. 
Alexander  Sheldon. 
John  Augustus  Smith. 
John  Stearns. 
David  B.  Warden. 
Joseph  AVhite. 
Westel  Willoughby,  Jr. 

1816.  Thomas  Cooper. 

1817.  John  D.  Jacques. 
1819  „     Richard  Davidson. 

William  H.  Richardson. 
John  Van  Cleve. 

1828 .  Luther  Riley. 

1829.  Lewis  Phoenix. 

1832 .     Christopher  C.  Yates. 
1847.     Louis  Agassiz. 

William  Farr. 

Henry  Marshall. 

Doctor  of  Medicine  of  the  University  of  the  State  of  Neio  York. 
(Under  authority  of  chapter  746,  Laws  of  1872.) 
1875.     Edward  William  Vietor. 
Howard  Lansing  Waldo. 

1880.  Louis  Eusebius  Rade. 

1881.  Howard  Simmons  Paine. 

Also   on   the   nomination   of    the    State    Medical 
Society: 

1827.     Jonathan  Eights. 
Thomas  Fuller. 
23 


178  HONORARY 

1827.  Laurens  Hull. 
John  Onderdouk. 
Gain  Robinson. 
James  Stevenson. 

1828.  Thomas  Broadhead. 
Eleazer  Gedney. 
John  D.  Henry. 

1829.  Daniel  Ayres. 
Joseph  G.  T.  Hunt. 
Henry  H.  Sherwood. 
John  H.  Steele. 

1830.  Enos  Barnes. 
Consider  King. 
Matson  Smith. 
Charles  D.  Townsend. 

1831.  Thomas  Dunlap. 
Jolin  Ely. 
John  McClellan. 
Samuel  Porter. 

1832.  Fayette  Cooper. 
Thomas  0.  H.  CroswelL 
Alpheus  S.  Greene, 
Lucius  Kellogg. 
George  \V.  Phillips. 

1833.  Robert  Collins. 
George  Eager. 
Joshua  Lee. 
Benjamin  J.  Mooers. 
Asahel  Prior. 
Joshua  Trowbridge. 

1834.  Harvey  W.  Doolitte. 
Asa  Fitch. 

1841.  Richard  S.  Bryan. 
Claudius  C.  Coan. 
John  Merriam. 
Henry  B.  Moore. 

1842.  William  C.  DeWitt. 


DEGREES.  179 


1842.     Levi  Farr. 

Thomas  Goodsell. 
Lester  Jewett. 

1844.  Matthias  B.  Bellows. 
Samuel  Maxwell. 
William  W.  Miner. 
Peter  Van  O'Linda. 

1845.  William  Mason. 
Andrew  F.  Oliver. 
Samuel  S  hum  way. 
Bartow  White. 

1846.  George  W.  Bradford. 
Ithamar  I>.  Crawe. 
Truman  B.  Hicks. 
Greene  Miller. 

1847.  Caleb  Bannister. 
Pelatiah  B.  Brooks. 
Hiram  Corliss. 
John  W.  Weed. 

1848.  Benjamin  E.  Bowen. , 
Eliphalet  Piatt. 
George  C.  Scheffer. 
Joshua  Webster. 

1849.  Arba  Blair. 
William  D.  Purple. 
John  W.  Riggs. 
Lewis  Ki^gs. 

1850.  Patrick  W.  Hard. 
Nathaniel  Miller. 
James  Thorn. 
John  E.  Todd. 

1851.  Phineas  H.  Burbeck. 
Purcell  Cook. 

Hem  an  Norton. 

1852.  Abel  Brace. 
Abel  Hnntmgtono 
Erastus  King. 


180  HONORARY 

1852.    Mason  G.  Smith. 

1854.  JSardius  Brewster. 
John  W.  Hinckley. 
Ehas  P.  Metcalf. 
Jacob  G.  Snell. 

1855.  Edson  Carr. 
Alonzo  Churchill. 
Jonathan  Kneeland. 
James  L.  Phelps. 

1856.  Hiram  Adams. 
Medina  Preston. 
Samuel  J.  Swalm. 
Silas  West. 

1857.  Millen  Barnes. 
Daniel  H.  Bissell. 
William  S.  Norton. 
Hiram  Watkins. 

1858.  William  S.  Appley, 
Nelson  S.  Garrison, 
James  Hogeboom. 
William  Eockwell. 

1859.  Merritt  H.  Clark. 
Richard  Lanning. 
Peter  P.  Staats. 
James  M.  Sturdevant. 

1860.  Francis  J.  D'Avignon. 
Peter  Moulton. 
Harrison  Teller. 

1861.  Charles  G.  Bacon. 
Charles  Barrows. 

1864.  R.  Spencer  Chapin. 
Leonard  G.  Warren. 

1865.  Ferris  Jacobs. 
Richard  L.  Satterlee, 

1867.    Jolm  Van  Ness. 
1869.    Lewis  Post. 
1871.    Elijah  S.  Lyman. 


*    DEGREES.  181 

1871.  Tobias  J.  Green. 
Evander  Odell. 

1872.  Cornelius  H.  ISchaaps. 
William  Lamont. 

1874.     Peter  Denny. 

■\Villiam  Newman. 
And  on  the  nomination  of  the  Homoeo'Dathic  State 
Medical  Society : 

1865.     Erederick  F.  Stamm. 
1869.     Oliver  E.  Noble. 

Ira  C.  Owen. 

Stephen  D .  Sherman. 
1872.     Caspar  Burchhausen. 

Alfred  W.  Gray. 

William  B.  Reeve. 
1876.     John  F.  Gray. 

Constantine  Herring, 

1878.  Egbert  Guernsey. 
William  Gulick. 
Harrison  V.  Miller. 
William  H.  Watson. 

1879.  Edward  Pay  son  Fowler. 
Cornelius  Ormes. 
Charles  Sumner. 

1880.  Edward  Bayard. 
Asa  Stone  Couch. 
Austin  Wells  Holden. 
Lester  Marcus  Pratt. 

1881.  Edwin  Henry  Hurd. 
Alonzo  Spofford  Ball. 
Horace  Marshfield  Paine. 
Charles  Taylor  Harris. 


182  UNIVEKSITY 


CHAPTER  XXI. 

THE    UNIVERSITY    CONVOCATION    OF    THE    STATE    OF 
NEW   YORK. 

§1.  Resolved,  That  it  is  expedient  to  hold  annually, 
under  the  direction  of  this  board,  a  meetijig  of  officers 
of  colleges  and  academies,  and  that  a  committee  be 
appointed  to  draft  a  programme  of  business  for  the 
proposed  meeting,  to  fix  the  time^and  place,  and  to 
make  si^h  other  arrangements  as  they  may  deem 
necessary. — [/?i  Board  of  Rcgent.%  January  9,  1^63. 

§  2.  Resolved,  That  it  is  eminently  desirable  that 
the  Regents  and  the  instructors  in  the  colleges  and 
academies  should  thus  meet  with  reference  to  the 
attainments  of  the  following  objects: 

1st.  To  secure  a  better  acquaintance  among  those 
engaged  in  these  departments  of  instruction,  witli 
each  other  and  with  the  Regents. 

2d.  To  secure  an  interchange  of  opinions  on  the 
best  methods  of  instruction  in  both  colleges  and 
academies  ;  and,  as  a  consequence, 

3d.  To  advance  the  standard  of  education  through- 
out the  State. 

4th.  To  adopt  such  common  rules  as  may  seem  best 
fitted  to  promote  the  harmonious  workings  of  the 
State  system  of  education. 

5th.  To  coittult  and  co-operate  with  the  Regents  in 
devising  and  executing  such  plans  of  education  as  the 
advanced  state  of  the  population  may  demand.     -^ 


CONVOCATION.  183 

6th.  To  exert  a  direct  influence  upon  the  people 
and  the  Legislature  of  the  State,  personally  and 
through  tlie  press,  so  as  to  secure  such  an  apprecia- 
tion of  a  thorough  system  of  education,  together  with 
such  pecuniary  aid  and  legislative  enactments,  as  will 
place  the  institutions  here  represented  in  a  position 
worthy  of  the  population  and  resources  of  the  State. 

§  3.  Besolvedy  That  this  meeting  of  officers  of  col- 
leges and  academies  be  hereafter  known  and  desig- 
nated as  *•'  The  University  Convocation  of  the  State 
of  New  York." 

§  4,  Resolved,  That  the  members  of  this  Convoca- 
tion shall  embrace  : 

1.  The  members  of  the  Board  of  Eegents. 

2.  All  instructors  in  colleges,  normal  schools,  acad- 
emies and  higher  departments  of  public  schools  that 
are  subject  to  the  visitation  of  the  Eegents,  and  (by 
amendment  of  1868)  the  trustees  of  all  such  institu- 
tions. 

3.  The  prseident,  first  vice-presid^t,  and  the  record- 
ing and  corresponding  secretaries  of  the  New  York 
State  Teachers^  Association. 

§  5.  Resolved,  That  the  Chancellor  and  Secretary 
of  the  Board  of  Regents  shall  act  severally  as  the 
presiding  officer  and  permanent  Secretary  of  the 
Convocation. 

§  6.  Resolved,  That  the  meeting  of  this  Convocation 
shall  be  held  annually,  in  the  city  of  Albany,  on  the 
first  Tuesday  in  Augu^  [see  ame7id?nent],  at  ten 
o'clock,  A.  M*,  unless  otherwise  appointed  by  the  Board 
of  Eegents.     [A7nended,  in   1873,  as   to  the  time  of 


184  UNIVERSITY 

meeting,  by  making  it  the  first  Tuesday  after  the 
Fourth  of  July,  except  when  the  Fourth  occurs  on 
Monday,  in  which  case  it  shall  be  the  second  Tuesday 
thereafter.  ] 

§  7.  Resolved,  That  at  each  annual  Convocation 
the  Chancellor  shall  announce  the  appointment,  by 
the  Regents,  of  an  executive  committee  of  seven  mem- 
bers, who  shall  meet  during  the  recess  of  the  Convoca- 
tion, at  such  time  and  place  as  the  Eegents  may  direct, 
with  authority  to  transact  business  connected  with  its 
general  object. —  [In  Convocatio7i,  August  5,  1863. 

§  8.  Resolved,  That  the  Regents  be  requested  to  in- 
vite the  attendance  of  representatives  of  colleges  of 
other  States  at  future  anniversaries  of  the  Convoca- 
tion.— [In  Convocation,  August  8, 1867. 

§  9.  Resolved,  That  there  be  appointed  by  the 
Chancellor,  at  each  annual  meeting,  a  committee  of 
necrology,  to  consist  of  three  persons. 

§  10.  Resolved  J  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  each 
member  of  the  Convocation  to  notify  the  chairman  of 
the  committee  of  necrology  of  the  decease  of  mem- 
bers occurring  in  their  immediate  neighborhood  or  cir- 
cle of  acquaintance,  as  an  assistance  to  the  preparation 
of  their  report. 

§11.  Resolved,  That  the  Secretary  publish,  with  the 
report  of  each  year's  proceedings,  the  original  resolu- 
tions of  1863,  as  they  are  or  may  be  from  time  to  time 
amended,  together  with  the  two  foregoing,  as  a  means 
of  better  informing  the  members  of  the  Convocation 
in  regard  to  its  nature  and  the  purposes  of  its  organi- 
zation.— [In  Convocation,  August  5,  1868. 


CONVOCATIOl?".  185 

§  12.  The  University  Convocation  hitherto  existing 
is  hereby  constituted  and  established  as  the  Convoca- 
tion of  the  University  of  the  State  of  New  York,  and 
shall  continue  to  be  called  and  known  by  the  style  of 
"  The  University  Convocation."  It  shall  consist  of 
such  members  of  the  Board  of  Eegents  of  the  Uni- 
versity and  such  instructors,  officers  and  trustees  of 
the  several  colleges,  academies  and  other  seminaries 
subject  to  the  visitation  of  the  Eegents  and  con- 
stituent members  of  the  University,  as  shall  at  the 
time  being  attend.  The  purpose  of  the  Convocation 
shall  be  to  secure  an  interchange  of  opinions  on  the 
subject  of  education  and  of  literature,  science  and  art, 
and  to  advance  their  standard  in  this  State;  to  har- 
monize the  workings  of  the  State  system  of  education; 
and,  by  essays,  treatises,  discussions  and  resolutions, 
on  subjects  connected  with  literature,  science  and  art 
and  with  the  credit,  interest  and  welfare  of  the  Uni- 
versity and  the  institutions  composing  it,  to  recom- 
mend to  such  institutions  and  to  the  Eegents,  for 
their  consideration,  such  action  as  may  be  expedient 
and  lawful. 

§  13.  The  Convocation  shall  meet  in  the  city  of 
Albany,  at  the  Capitol,  on  the  first  Tuesday  after  the 
Fourth  of  July,  except  when  the  Fourth  occurs  on 
Monday,  in  which  case  it  shall  be  the  second  Tuesday 
thereafter,  or  at  such  other  time  and  place  as  may  be 
directed  by  the  Eegents.  A  quorum  shall  consist  of 
those  present  at  any  actual  sitting  of  the  Convocation. 
The  Board  of  Eegents  shall  always  be  in  session 
24 


186  UNIVERSITY   COXYOCATION". 

during  the  meeting  of  the  Convocation,  with  such 
recesses  of  the  Regents  and  of  the  Convocation  as  may 
be  expedient.  The  Chancellor  and  Vice-Chancellor 
and  the  Secretaries  of  the  Eegents  shall  be  the  pre- 
siding officers  and  Secretaries  of  the  Convocation, 
with  power  to  substitute  others  to  perform  their 
duties  respectively,  pro  tempore,  not  longer  than  one 
day. 

§  14.  At  the  time  of  the  Convocation  shall  be  held 
the  annual  Commencement  of  the  University,  and 
such  degrees  as  may  be  ordered  by  the  Regents  shall 
be  then  publicly  announced  and  conferred  by  the 
Chancellor,  except  when  the  Regents  shall  otherwise 
provide. — [Regents'  Ordinance  of  April  11,  1879. 


THE   STATE   LIBRARY.  187 


CHAPTER  XXII. 

THE   STATE   LIBRARY. 

§  1.  Ordered,  That  the  librarian  of  the  law  depart- 
ment of  the  library  is  hereby  instructed  to  enforce  the 
provisions  of  the  concurrent  resolution  of  the  Senate 
and  Assembly  of  16th  April,  1861,  declaring  it  to  be 
the  duty  of  the  trustees  of  the  library  to  secure  its  un- 
interrupted use  to  the  purposes  named  in  said  resolu- 
tion, and  to  limit  its  use  substantially  to  the  persons 
and  officers  by  said  resolution  designated. 

And  that  to  that  end  the  occupation  of  the  room  of 
that  department  as  a  study  or  reading  room,  a»jd  the 
use  of  its  volumes  as  text-books  by  law  students  is 
prohibited. 

§  2.  Ordered,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  the  trustees 
that  the  general  department  of  the  library  is  not  in- 
tended as  a  popular  library  for  indiscriminate  and  con- 
tinuous reading. 

That  the  same  is  primarily  designed  for  the  use 
of  the  Legislature  and  officers  of  the  State,  and  for 
reference  by  historical  and  professional  students  and 
those  interested  in  special  lines  of  inquiry. 

And  to  carry  out  in  part  the  purposes  of  the  library 
as  above  expressed,  the  librarian  of  the  general  library 
IS  instructed  not  to  deliver  to  visitors,  for  general  and 
continuous  reading  in  the  library,  works  of  fiction, 
light  literature,  travels,  literary  periodicals,  and  pub- 
lications of  like  character. 


188  THE   STATE   LIBRARY. 

§  3.  Ordered,  That  from  and  after  the  first  day  of 
February  next,  the  regular  meetings  of  the  library 
committee  be  on  the  first  Tuesdays  of  March,  May, 
July,  September,  November  and  January,  and  that 
special  meetings  may  be  called  by  the  Chancellor  in 
his  discretion. — [Ordina7ices  of  January  10, 1879. 


MISCELLAi^^EOUS   RESOLUTIOi;rS.  189 


CHAPTER  XXIII. 

MISCELLANEOUS   RESOLUTIONS. 

§  1.  The  Regents  will  hold  two  general  business  sessions 
annually,  the  first  to  commence  with  the  annual  meeting 
prescribed  by  law,  and  tlie  other  to  be  held  at  the  time  of 
the  University  Convocation,  on  or  about  the  first  Tuesday 
of  July ;  each  of  said  sessions  shall  be  continued  by  daily 
adjournments  during  at  least  one  week;  and  at  each  of  said 
meetings  all  business  of  the  board  shall  be  in  order,  and,  as 
far  as  is  consistent  with  the  public  interest,  all  business 
shall  be  transacted  at  such  meetings. — [^Resolution  of  January 
15,  1864. 

§  2.  A  meeting  of  the  board  shall  be  held  on  the  day  pre- 
ceding the  annual  meeting,  at  4  o'clock,  p.  m. — [Resolution 
of  January  29,  1880. 

§  3.  The  standing  committees  of  this  board  whose  ser- 
vices are  needed  in  preparing  reports  for  the  annual  meet- 
ing of  each  year  shall  be  duly  notified  by  the  secretary  that 
their  attendance  is  due  on  the  morning  of  the  second  Thursday 
of  January,  this  being  the  day  fixed  by  law  for  the  annual 
meeting. — [Resolution  of  January  10,  1868. 

§  5,  Whenever,  in  any  academy,  the  school  has  been  sus- 
pended, annual  reports  shall  be  required  from  the  trustees  as 
to  the  condition  of  the  property  of  the  same,  with  a  state- 
ment of  the  reasons  why  instruction  has  been  suspended. 
— [Resolution  of  January  12,  1866. 

I  5.  All  institutions  subject  to  the  visitation  of  the 
Regents  are  requested  to  place  in  their  catalogues  and  other 
publications  a  recognition  of  their  oflRcial  connection  with 
the  University,  by  placing  in  a  head-line,  on  the  title  page, 
the  words : 

University  of  the  State  of  New  York, 

and  by  inserting  a  list  of  the  Regents  of  the  University; 
also  to  transmit  two  copies  of  their  catalogues  to  be  pre- 
served in  the  State  Library. —  [Resolution  of  July  11,  1878. 


190        UNIVERSITY   OF   STATE   OF   NEW   YOKE, 


CHAPTER  XXIV. 
REGENTS  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY. 

1.  Regents  appointed  under  the  acts  of  the  Legislature  of 
May  1  and  November  26,  1784,  arranged  in  the  order  of 
seniority  as  established  by  the  said  acts.  * 

1.  Ex-OFFicio  Regents. 
Tlie  Governor,  George  Clinton. 
Tlie  Lieutenant- Governor,  Pierre  Van  Cortlandt. 
The  President  of  the  Senate  for  the  time  heing, 
Abraham  Yates,  jiin., 

Oct.  ISth  to  Nov.  29th  1784; 
Jan.  24th  to  April  27th,  1785; 
March  27th  and  28th,  1786; 
April  4th  to  May  5th,  1786. 
The  Speaker  of  the  Assembly, 

John  Hathorn 1784-5; 

David  Gelston 1785; 

John  Lansing,  jun 1786; 

Richard  Variek 1787. 

The  Mayor  of  the  City  of  New  York,  James  Duane. 
The  Mayor  of  the  city  of  Albany, 

John  Jacob  Beeckman 1784r-86; 

John  Lansing,  jun.,  Sep. 29th,  1786-87. 

The  Attorney-General, 

Egbert  Benson. 

•  For  a  copy  of  these  acts,  see  former  edition  of  University  Manual^ 
pp.  162-193. 


CATALOGUE  OF   REGENTS.  191 

The  Secretary  of  State, 

John  Morin  Scott. 

2.  Additional  Regekts. 
(1.)  By  the  Act  of  May  1,  1784. 

Henry  Brockholst  Livingston  and  Robert  Harpur, 

of  the  City  of  New  York, 

Walter  Livingston  and  Christopher  Yates, 

of  the  County  of  Albany. 

Anthony  Hoffman  and  Cornelius  Humfrey, 

of  the  County  of  Dutchess. 

Lewis  Morris  and  Philip  Pell,  jun., 

of  the  County  of  Westchester. 

Henry  Wisner  and  John  Haring, 

of  the  County  of  Orange. 

Christopher  Tappen  and  James  Clinton, 

of  the  County  of  Ulster. 

Christopher  P.  Yates  and  James  Livingston, 

of  the  County  of  Montgomery. 

Abraham  Bancker  and  John  C.  Dongan, 

of  the  County  of  Richmond. 

Matthew  Clarkson  and  Rutger  Van  Brunt, 

of  the  County  of  Kings. 

James  Townsend  and  Thomas  Lawrence, 

of  the  County  of  Queens. 

Ezra  L'Hommedieu  and  Caleb  Smith, 

of  the  County  of  Suffolh. 

John  Williams  and  John  McCrea, 

of  the  County  of  Washington. 


192         UNIVERSITY   OF    STATE   OF   NEW   YORK. 

(2.)  By  the  Act  of  Nov.  2G,  1784. 

John  Jay,  John  Kodgers, 

Samuel  Provost,  John  Mason, 

John  H.  Livingston,  John  Ganoe, 

John  Daniel  Gros,  Morgan  Lewis, 

Johann  Ch.  Kunze,  Leonard  Lispenard, 

Joseph  Delaplain,  John  Cochran, 

Gershom  Seixas,  Charles  McKnight, 

Alexander  Hamilton,  Thomas  Jones, 

John  Lawrence,  Malachi  Treat, 

John  Eutherford,  Nicholas  Eomain, 

all  of  New  York, 
Peter  W.  Yates, 
Matthew  Visscher, 
Hunlock  Woodruff,  all  of  Albany, 
George  J.  L.  Doll,  of  Ulster, 
John  Yanderbilt,  of  Kings. 
Thomas  Romain,  of  Montgomery, 
Samuel  Buel,  of  Sxhffollc. 
Gilbert  Livingston,  of  Dutchess, 
Nathan  Kerr,  of  Orange. 
Ebenezer  Lockwood,  o/  Westchester. 
John  Lloyd,  jun.,  of  Queens. 
Harmanus  Garrison,  of  Richmond. 
Ebenezer  Russell,  of  Washington, 

The  Board  organized  on  the  5th  day  of  May,  1784, 
by  the  election  of  the  following  officers  : 

Chancellor — His  Excellency,  George  Clinton. 

Vice- Chancellor—  His  Honor,  Pierre  Van  Cortlandt. 

Treasurer — Brockholst  Livingston,  Esquire. 

Secretary — Robert  Ilarpur,  Esquire. 


CATALOGUE  OF  REGENTS.  103 

The  board  remained  without  change  by  new  ap- 
pointments until  the  passage  of  the  act  of  April  13, 

1787. 

II.  Regents  appointed  under  tlie  act  of  April  18,  1787,  arranged 
by  classes,  in  the  order  of  succession  under  each  class. 

The  Governor  and  Lieutenant-Governor  have  been 
ex-officio  members  of  the  Board  since  its  organization  ; 
the  Secretary  of  State  since  the  year  1842 :  and  the 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  since  the  year 
1854. 

1.  Ex-OFFicio  Regent?. 

Governors. 

George  Clinton 1784 

John  Jay 1795 

George  Clinton 1801 

Morgan  Lewis 1804 

Daniel  D.  Tompkins 1807 

DeWitt  Clinton 1817 

Joseph  0.  Yates 1823 

DeWitt  Clinton 1825 

Martin  Van  Buren 1829 

Enos  T.  Throop 1831 

William  L.  Marcy 1833 

William  H.  Seward 1839 

William  C.  Bouck 1843 

Silas  Wright 1845 

John  Young 1847 

Hamilton  Fish 1849 

Washington  Hunt. .  . .  c ►  1851 

Horatio  Seymour 1853 

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104  UNIVEESITT   OF   STATE   OF   NEW   YORK, 

Myron  II.  Clark 1S55 

John  A.  King 1857 

Edwin  D.  Morgan 1859 

Horatio  Seymour 1863 

Reuben  E.  Fenton 18G5 

John  T;  Iloflfman 18GI) 

John  A.  Dix 1873 

Samuel  J.  Tildon 1875 

Lucius  Robinson 1877 

Alonzo  B.  Cornell 1880 

Lieutenant-  Governors. 

Pierre  Van  Cortlandfc 1784 

Stephen  Van  Rensselaer 1795 

Jeremiah  Van  Rensselaer 1801 

John  Broome 1804 

Do  Witt  Clinton 1812 

John  Tayler 1814 

Erastus  Root 1823 

James  Talmadgc 1825 

Nathaniel  Ritcher 1827 

Enos  T.  Throop 1829 

Edward  P.  Livingston.  .* 1831 

John  Tracy 1833 

Luther  Bradisli 1839 

Daniel  S.  Dickinson 1843 

Addison  Gardiner 1845 

Hamilton  Fish 1847 

George  W.  Patterson 1849 

Sanford  E.  Church 1851 

Henry  J.  Raymond 1855 


CATALOGUE  OF  KEGENTS.  195 

Henry  R.  Sc4(len 1S57 

Robert  Campbell 1850 

David  R.  Floyd  Jones 1863 

Thomas  G.  Alvord 18G5 

Stewart  L.  Woodford ]  867 

Allen  0.  Beach 1869 

John  C.  Robinson 1873 

William  Dorsheimer 1875 

George  G.  Iloskins 1880 


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Secretaries  of  Slate. 

Samnel  Young 1842 

Nachaniel  IS.  Benton 1845 

Christopher  Morgan 1848 

Henry  S.  Randall. 1852 

Elias  W.  Leavenworth 1854 

Joel  T.  Headley 1850 

Gideon  J.  Tucker 1858 

David  R.  Floyd  Jones 1860 

Horatio  Ballard 1862 

Chauncey  M.  Depew 1864 

Francis  C.  Barlow 1866 

Homer  A.  Nelson 1868 

G.  Hilton  Scribner 1872 

Diedrich  Willers,  Jr. . .    1874 

John  Bigelow 1876 

Allen  C.  Beach 1878 

Joseph  B.  Carr 1880 

Superintendents  of  PnUic  Instruction. 

Victor  M.  Rico 1854 

Henry  11.  Van  Dyck 1857 


19G  UNIVERSITY  OF  STATE  OF  KEW  YORK. 

Victor  M.  Rice 1862 

Abram  B.  Weaver 1868 

Neil  Gilmour 1874 

2.  Regents  Appointed  by  the  Legislature. 

1.  John  Rogers,  D.  D April  13,  1787.  Deceased. 

2.  Joseph  C.  Yates Feb.    28,  1812.  Resigned. 

3.  Prosper  M.  Wetmore  April     4,  18.i3.  Deceased. 

4.  John  A.  Dix,  LL.D Mar.    29,  1876.  Resigned. 

5.  Whitelaw  Reid Jan.    17,  1878. 

1.  Egbert  Benson,  LL.D April  13,  1787.  Resigned. 

2.  John  Tayler Feb.      1,  1802.  Deceased. 

3.  John  Suydam Mar.   31,  1829.  Deceased. 

4.  Washington  Irving May      9,  1835.  Resigned. 

5.  David  Buel Mar.   24,  1842.  Deceased. 

6.  Elias  W.  Leavenworth Feb.      5,  1861. 

1.  Philip  Schuyler April  13,  1787.  Deceased. 

2.  Ambrose  Spencer,  LL.D Jan.    28,  1805.  Vacated. 

3.  Nathan  Williams Jan.    28,  1817.  Vacated. 

4.  Peter  B.  Porter Feb.    13,  1824.  Resigned. 

5.  John  Tracy April    2,  1830.  Resigned. 

6.  William  Campbell Feb.     5,  1833.  Deceased. 

7.  Martin  Van  Buren,  LL.D Feb.      3,  1845.  Resigned. 

8.  Jabez  D.  Hammond,  LL.D. . .  May    10,  1845.  Deceased. 

9.  George  W.  Clinton,  LL.D Mar.      6,  1856. 


1.  Ezra  L'Hommedieu April  13,  1787.  Deceased. 

2.  Solomon  Southwick Feb.    28,1812.  Resigned. 

3.  Peter  Wendell,  M.  D ....... .    Feb.    15,  1823.  Deceased. 

4.  John  N.  Campbell,  D.  D Mar.    18,  1857.  Deceased. 

5.  Alexander  S.  Johnson,  LL.D. .  April  12,  1^64.  Vacated. 

6.  Anson  J.  Upson,  D.D Feb.    11,  1874. 


CATALOGUE   OF   KEGEiTTS.  197 

1.  Rev.  Nathan  Kerr April  13,  1787.  Deceased. 

2.  Lucas  Elmendorf Jan.    28,  1805.  Vacated. 

3.  James  Thompson  Feb.      7,  1822.  Deceased. 

4.  John  L.  O'Sullivan Feb.      2,  1846.  Resigned. 

5.  Erastus  C.  Benedict,  LL.D Mar.    22,  1855.  Deceased. 

!  6.  William  H.  Watson Feb.      2.  1881. 


1.  Peter  Sylvester April  13,  1787.  Deceased. 

2.  Nathan  Smith Jan.  31,  1809.   Vacated. 

3.  Harmanus  Bleecker,  LL.D Feb.  7,  1822.  Resigned. 

4.  James  McKown April  17,  1834.  Deceased. 

5.  Robert  G.  Rankin Sept.  22,  1847.  Deceased. 

6.  Charles  E.  Smith Jan.  22,  1879.  Resigned. 

7.  Henry  E.  Turner Feb.  2,  1881. 

1.  John  Jay,  LL.D April  13,  1787.  Resigned. 

2.  Gulian  Verplanck Mar.  30,  1790.  Deceased. 

3.  James  Kent,  LL.D, Feb.  3,   1800.  Vacated. 

4.  John  Lansing,  Jr.,  LL.D Jan.  28,  1817.  Deceased. 

5.  John  P.  Cushman April  2,  1830.  Resigned. 

6.  JohnXorimer  G-raham April  17,  1834.  Resigned. 

7.  George  William  Curtis,  LL.D..  April  12,1864. 


1.  Dirck  Romeyn,  D.D   April  13,  1787.  Resigned. 

2.  James  Cochran Feb.  18,  1796.  Resigned. 

3.  William  A.  Duer,  LL.D Feb.  1,  1820.  Resigned. 

4.  Robert  Troup Feb.  13,  1824.  Resigned. 

5.  Edward  P.  Livingston Feb.  20,  1827.  Resigned. 

6.  John  A.  Dix,  LL.D Mar.  23,  1S31.  Sesiirned. 

7.  Robert  Campbell Feb.  2,  1846.  Deceased. 

8.  Horatio  G.Warner,  LL.  D...   Feb.  8,  1871.  Deceased. 

9.  William  L.  Bostwick Mar.  9,  1876. 


198  UNIVERSITY   OF   STATE   OF  KEW   YORK. 

1.  James  Livingston April  13,  1787.  Rt'signeJ. 

2.  Abraham  YanVechten,  LL.D.   Jan.     11,  1797.   Resigned. 

3.  James  King Feb.    1.5,  1823.  Deceased. 

4.  Gideon  Hawley,  LL.D Feb.      1,  1842.  Deceased. 

5.  John  L.  Le\yis Feb.      8,  1871. 


1.  Ebenezer  Russell April  13,  1787.  Resigned. 

2.  John  VVoodworth Mar.      3,  1813.  Resigned. 

3.  Samuel  A.  Talcott Feb.     1.5,  1823.  Resigned. 

4.  John  Keyes  Paige Mar.    31,  1829.   Deceased, 

5.  Lorenzo  liurrovvs Feb.    IC,  1858. 

1 .  Lewis  Morris April  13,  1787.  Deceased. 

2.  Simeon  DeVVitt  . Mar.    13,  1798.  Deceased. 

3.  Amasa  J.  Parker,  LL.D Jan.    20,1835.   Resigned. 

4.  John  V.  L.  Pruyn,  LL.D May     4,  1844.   Deceased. 

5.  Leslie  W.  Russell Jan.    17,  1878. 

1.  Matthew  Clarkson April  13,1787.  Resigned. 

2.  Gulian  C.  Verplanck,  LL.D  ..  Jan.     2C,  182G.  Deceased. 

3.  Oswald  Ottendorfer April  14,1870.   Resigned. 

4.  James  W.  Booth May    14,  1873.  Deceased. 

5.  Chauncey  M.  Depcw Jan.    31,  1877. 

1.  Rt.  Rev.  Benjamin  Moore,  D.  D.  April  13,  1787.  Resigned. 

2.  Henry  Rutgers Feb.   15,  1802.   Resigned. 

3.  Jesse  Buel Jan.    2G,  182G.  Resigned. 

4.  John  C.  Spencer,  LL.D Feb.  28,  1840.  Ym  ated. 

5.  James  S.  Wadsworth May      4,  1844.  Deceased. 

G.  Wm.  n.  Goodwin,  D.D.,  LL.D  Jan.    24,  18G5.  Deceased. 

7.  Augustus  C.  George,  D.  D Mar.    9,  1870.  Resigned. 

8.  Orris  II.  ^Yarren,  D.  D April  11,  1877. 


CATALOGUE  OF  REGENTS.  190 

1.  Eilardus  Westerlo,  D.  D April  13,  1787.  Deceased. 

2.  Zephaniah  Piatt. . . Jan.  15,  1791.  Deceased. 

3.  Peter  Gansevoort,  Jr Feb.  11,  1808.   Deceased. 

4.  Smith  Thompson,  LL.D Mar.  8,1813.  Resigned. 

5.  Stephen  Van  Rensselaer,  LL.D  Mar.  IG,  1819.  Deceased. 

6.  Joseph  Russell Feb.  18,  1839.  Resigned. 

7.  Wilham  C.  Bouck      Feb.  3,  1845.  Vacated. 

8.  Samuel  Luckey,  D.  D   May  6,  1817.   Deceased. 

9.  Francis  Kernan Feb.  10,  1870. 

1.  Rev.  Andrew  King April    13, 1787.  Deceased. 

2.  Martin  Van  Buren,  LL.D Mar.     4,1816.  Resigned. 

3.  Gerrit  Y.  Lansing,  LL.D Mar.    31,  1829.  Deceased. 

4.  George  R.  Perkins,  LL.D  ....   Jan.     30,  1862.  Deceased. 

5.  Charles  E.  Fitch Jan.    31,  1877. 

1.  William  Linn,  D.  D April  13,  1787.   Deceased. 

2.  De  Witt  Clinton,   LL.D Feb.     11,1808.   Resigned. 

3.  John  Greig Jan.     12,1825.   Deceased, 

4.  Wm.  C.  Bryant,  LL.D.,L.H.D.  April  15,  1858.  Declined. 

5.  George  B.  Cheever,  D.  D Mar.  29,  1859.  Vacated. 

6.  J.  Carson  Brevoort,  LL.D. . .   Feb.     5,1861.  ' 


1.  Jonathan  G.  Tompkins April  13,  1787.  Resigned. 

2.  Alexander  Sheldon Feb.     1 1,  1808.  Vacated, 

3.  John  De  Witt,  D.  D Jan.    28,  1817.  Resigned. 

4.  William  L.  Marcy,  LL.D April     9,  1823.  Resigned. 

5.  Benjamin  F.  Butler,  LL.D....  Feb.    14,  1829.  Resigned. 

6.  John  L.  Viele Feb.      6,  1832.  Decea.sed. 

7.  Erastus  Corning Feb.      5,1833.  Deceased. 

8.  Henry  R.  Pierson,  LL.D April  24,   1872. 

1.  Rev.  John  McDonald April  13,  1787.  Resigned. 

2.  Rev.  Jonas  Coe Mar.   24,  1796.  DecHned. 


200  UNIVERSITY   OF  STATE   OF  H^EW   YORK. 

3.  Rev.  Thomas  Ellison Feb.   28,  1797.  Deceased. 

4.  Charles  Selden.   Feb.    18,  1803.  Vacated. 

5.  Samuel  Young Jan.   28,  1817.  Resigned . 

6.  John  McLean April    8,  1835.  Deceased. 

7.  Robert  S.  Hale,  LL.  D Mar.  29,  1859.  Deceased. 


1.  Fred.  Wm.  Baron  De  Steuben,  April  13,  1787.  Deceased. 

2.  James  Watson ...   Jan.   28,  1795.  Deceased. 

3.  Elisha  Jenkins Feb.    1 1,  1807.  Deceased. 

4.  Philip  S.  Van  Rensselaer Feb.      C,  1849.  Deceased. 

5.  Robert  Kelly Mar.     6,  1856.  Deceased. 

6.  Isaac  Parks,  D.  D April    7,  1857.  Deceased. 

7.  John  A.  Griswold April  29,  18G9.  Deceased. 

8.  Martin  I.  Townsend,  LL.D. . .  April  24,  1873. 

Cases  of  resignation 43 

Died  while  in  office 53 

Places  vacated   11 

Declined  to  accept  the  office  2 

Number  now  in  office 19 

Total 126 

The  total  is  two  more  than  the  whole  number  of 
individuals,  inasmuch  as  Martin  Van  Buren  and 
John  A.  Dix  were  twice  elected,  and  twice  resigned. 

William  0.  Bryant  and  Rev.  Jonas  Coe  each  de- 
clined the  office. 

It  is  a  remarkable  fact  tliat  Matthew  Clarkson, 
who  was  named  in  the  act  of  1787,  held  the  oflice 
thirty-nine  years,  and  his  successor,  the  lato  Vice- 
Chancellor  Gulian  C.  Verplanck,  forty-four  yeara. 


CATALOGUE  OF  REGENTS.         201 

III.  Alpliabetical  List  of  Regents  of  the  University,  from  1784 
to  1881,  with  dates  of  accession  to  office. 

Thomas  G.  Alvord,  ex-officio 1865 

Horatio  Ballard,  ex-officio 1862 

Abraham   Bancker May,  1 784 

Francis  0.  Barlow,  ex-officio 1866 

Allen  C.  Beach,  ex-officio 1869 

Allen  C.  Beach,  ex-officio 1878 

John  Jacob  Beeckman,  ex-officio 1784 

Erastus  C.  Benedict,  LL.D 1855 

Egbert  Benson,  ex-officio May,  1784 

Egbert  Benson,  LL.D 1787 

Nathaniel   S.  Benton,  ex-officio 1845 

John  Bigelow,  ex-officio ]  876 

Harmanus  Bleecker,  LL.D 1822 

James  W.  Booth 1873 

William   L.  Bostwick 1876 

William  C.  Bouck,  ex-officio 1843 

William  C.  Bouck 1845 

Luther  Bradish,  ex-officio 1839 

J.  Carson  Brevoort,  LL.D 1861 

John  Broome,  ex-officio 1804 

William  0.  Bryant,  LL.D.,  L.H.D . . . .  1858 

David  Buel 1842 

Jesse  Buel 1826 

Samuel   Buel Nov.  1784 

Lorenzo   Burrows 1858 

Benjamin  F.  Butler,  LL.D 1829 

John  N.  Campbell,  D.  D 1851 

Robert  Campbell  1846 

Robert  Campbell,  ex-officio 1859 

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202  UJS'lVEliSlTY   OF  STATE  OF  SEW  YOJlK. 

William  Campbell 1833 

Joseph   B.  Carr,  ex-officio 1880 

George  B.  Cheever,  D.  D 1859 

San  ford   E.  Church,  ex-officio 1851 

Myron  II.  Clark,  ex-officio 1855 

Matthew  Chirkson May,  1784,  1787 

DeWitt   Clinton,  LL.D \ 1808 

De  Witt  Clinton,  ex-officio,  1812,  1817,  1825 

George  Clinton,  ex-officio, ,  .I'iS^,  1787,  1801 

George   W.  Clinton,  LL.D 1856 

James   Clinton May,  1784 

James   Cochran 1796 

John  Cochran Nov.  1784 

Rev.  Jonas   Coe 1796 

Alonzo  B.  Cornell,  ex-officio 1880 

Erastus  Corning 1833 

George  William    Curtis,  LL.  D 1864 

John  P.  Cushman 1830 

Joseph  Deln plain Nov.  1784 

Chauncey  M.  Depew,  ex-officio 1864 

Chauncey  M.  Depew 1877 

John  DeWitt,  D.  D 1817 

Simeon  De  Witt 1798 

Daniel   S.  Dickinson,  ex-officio 1843 

John  A.  Dix,  LL.D * 1831 

John  A.  Dix,  LL.D.,  ex-officio 1873 

John  A.  Dix,  LL.D 1876 

George  J.  L.  Doll Nov.  1784 

John  C.  Dongan May,  1784 

William   Dorsheimer,  ex-officio 1875 

James  Duaue,  ex-officio 1784 


CATALOGUE  OF  REGENTS.         203 

William  A.  Duer,  LL.D 1820 

Rev.  Thomas  Ellison. 1797 

Lucas  Elmendorf 1805 

Reuben  E.  Eon  ton,  cx-officio 1865 

Hamilton  Vis,h,  ex-officio 1847 

Charles  E.  Fitch 1877 

John  Ganoe  Nov.  1784    . 

Peter  Gansevoort,  Jr 1808 

Addison  Gardiner,  ex-officio 1845 

Harmanus  Garrison Nov.,  1784 

David  Gelston,  ex-officio  1785 

Augustus  C.  George,  D.  D 187G 

Neil  Gilmour,  ex-officio 1874 

William  II.  Goodwin,  D.  D 1865 

John  Lorimer  Graham 1834 

John  Greig 1825 

John  A.  Griswold 1869 

John  Daniel  Gros Nov.,  1784 

Robert  S.  Hale,  LL.  D ...   1859 

Alexander  Hamilton Nov.,  1784 

Jabez  D.  Hammond,  LL.D 1845 

John  Haring May,  1784 

Robert  llarpur May,  1784 

John  Hathorn,  ex-officio 1784 

Gideon  Ilawlej,  LL.  D 1842 

Joel  T.  Ileadley,  ex-officio 1856 

Anthony  Hoffman May,  1784 

John  T.  Hoffman,  ex-officio 1869 

George  G.  Hoskius,  ex-officio 1880 

Cornelius  Humfrey May,  1784 

Washington  Hunt,  ex-officio 1851 


204         UNIVERSITY   OF  STATE  OF  KEW  YORK. 

"Washington  Irving,  LL.D 1835 

John  Jay,  LL.D Nov.,  1784,  1787 

John  Jay,  ex-officio 1 795 

Elisha  Jenkins 1807 

Alexander  S.  Johnson,  LL.D 1864 

David  E.  Ployd  Jones,  e,'C-f)^6'io,  1800,  3863 

Thomas  Jones Nov.,  1784 

Robert  Kelly 1856 

James  Kent,  LL.D 1800 

Francis  Kernan 1 870 

■Rev.  Nathan  Kerr Nov.,  1784,  1787 

Rev.  Andrew  King 1787 

James  King 1823 

John  A.  King,  ex-officio 1857 

Johann  Ch.  Kunze Nov.,  1784 

Gerrit  Y.  Lansing,  LL. D 1 829 

John  Lansing,  Jr.,  ex-officio 1786 

John  Lansing,  Jr.,  LL.D 1817 

John  Lawrence Nov.,  1784 

Thomas  Lawrence May,  1784 

Elias  W.  Leavenworth,  ex-officio 1854 

Elias  ^Y•  Leavenworth 1861 

John  L.  Lewis 1871 

Morgan  I  cwis Nov.,  1 784 

Morgan  Lewis,  ex<fficio 1804 

Ezra  L'Hommodieu May,  1784,  1787 

William  Linn,  D.  D 1787 

Leonard  Lispcnard Nov.,  1784 

Edward  I\  Livingston 1827 

Edward  P.  Livingston,  cx-officio 1831 

.  Gilbert  Livingston Nov.,  1784 


CATALOGUE   OF   REGEITTS.  205 

Henry  Brcckholsfc  Livingston  . .  .May,  1784 

James  Livingston May,  1784,  1787 

John  H.   Livingston.... Nov.,  1784 

Walter  Livingston , May,  1784 

John  Lloyd,  Jr .Nov.,  1784 

Ebenezcr  Lockwood Nov.,  1784 

Samuel  Luckey,  D.  D 1847 

William  L.  Marcy,  LL.D . . . . 1823 

William  L.  Marcy,  ex-officio 1833 

John  Mason Nov.,  1784 

John  McCrea May,  1784 

Eev.  John  McDonald 1787 

Charles  McKnight Nov.,  1784 

James  McKown ,   1834 

John  McLean 1835 

Rt.  Rev.  Benjamin  Moore,  D.  D. . . . . .   1787 

Christopher  Morgan,  ex-officio 1848 

Edwin  D.  Morgan,  ex-officio 1859 

Lewis  Morris May,  1784,  ]  787 

Homer  A.  Nelson,  ex-officio 1868 

John  L.  O'Sullivan 184G 

Oswald  Ottendorfer 1870 

John  Keyes  Paige 1829 

Amasa  J.  Parker,  LL.D 1835 

Isaac  Parks,  D.  D 1857 

George  W.  Patterson,  ex-officio 1849 

Philip  Pell,  Jr May,  1784 

George  R.  Perkins,  LL.D 1862 

Henry  R.  Pierson,  LL.D ; . . .   1872 

Nathaniel  Pitcher,  ex-officio 1827 

Zephaniah  Piatt 1791 


206  UNIVERSITY   OF  STATE  OF   NEW   YORK, 

Peter  B.  Porter 1824 

Samuel  Provost Nov.,  17S4 

John  V.  L.  Priiyn,  LL.D 1844 

Henry  S.  Raiulall,  cx-officio 1852 

Robert  G.  Rankin  1847 

Henry  J.  Raymond,  cx-officio 1855 

Whitelaw  Reid 1878 

Victor  M.  Rice,  cx-officio 1854,  18C2 

John  C.  Robinson,  ex-officio . . , 1873 

Lucius  Robinson,  Jjh.D.,  ex-officio. , . ,  1877 

John  Rodgers,  D.  D Nov.,  1784,  1787 

Nicholas  Romain Nov.,  1784 

Thomas  Romain Nov.,  1784 

Dirck  Romcyn,  D.  I).,  cx-officio 1787 

Erastus  Root,  ex-officio 1823 

Ebenezcr  Russell. Nov.  1784,  1787 

Joseph  Russell 183i) 

Leslie  AV.  Russell ; 1878 

Uenry  Rutgers 1802 

John  Rutherford Nov.  1784 

Philip  Schuyler 1787 

Jolin  Morin  Scott,  cx-officio 1784 

G.  Hilton  Scribncr,  ex-officio 1872 

Gershom  Seixas Nov.  1784 

Charles  Seklen 1803 

Henry  R.  Selden,  ex-officio  1857 

"William  H.  Seward,  ex-officio 1839 

Horatio  Seymour,  ex-officio 1853,  1863 

Alexander  Shelden- 1808 

Caleb  Smith May,  1784 

Charles  E.  Sraiih 1879 


CATALOGUE  OF  REQEKTS.  207 

Nathan  Smith 1809 

JSolomou  Southwick 1812 

Ambrose  Spencer,  LL.D 1805 

John  C.  Spencer,  LL.D 1840 

Fred.  Wm.  Baron  de  Steuben 1787 

John  Suydam 1829 

Peter  Sylvester 1787 

Samuel  A.  Talcott 1823 

James  Talmadge,  cx-officio 1825 

Christopher  Tappen May,  1784 

John  Tayler 1802 

John  Tayler,  ex-officio 1814 

James  Thompson 1822 

Smith  Thompson,  LL.D 1813 

Enos  T.  Throop,  cx-officio 1829,   18:n 

Samuel  J.  Tilden,  cx-officio 1875 

Daniel  D.  Tompkins,  ex-officio 1807 

Jonathan  G.  Tompkins 1787 

James  Townsend May,  1784 

Martin  L  Townsend,  LL.D 1873 

John  Tracy 1830 

John  Tracy,  cx-officio 1833 

Malachi  Treat. ! Nov.   1784 

Robert  Troup 1824 

Gideon  J.  Tucker,  ex-officio 1858 

Henry  E.  Turner : 1881 

Anson  J.  Upson,  D.  D,  LL.  D 1874 

llutger  Van^Brunt May,  1784 

Martin  Van  Buren,  LL.D 1816,  1845 

Martin  Van  Buren,  ex-officio 1829 

Pierre  Van  Cortland,  ex-officw,.  .17S^,  1787 


208  UNIVERSITY  OF   STATE  OF  NEW  YORK. 

John  Vanderbilfc Nov.  1784 

Henry  H.  Van  Dyck,  ex-officio 1 757 

Jeremiah  Van  Rensselaer,  ex-offlcio  ...  1801 

Philip  S.  Van  Rensselaer 1849 

Stephen  Van  Rensselaer,  ex-offlcio 1795 

Stephen  Van  Rensselaer,  LL.D 1819 

Abraham  Van  Vechten,  LL.D 1797 

Richard  Varick,  ex-officio 1787 

Gulian  Verplanck 1790 

Gillian  C.  Verplanck,  LL.D 182G 

John  L.  Viele  1832 

Matthew  Visscher Nov.,  1784 

James  S.  Wadsworth 1844 

Horatio  G.  Warner,  LL.D 1871 

Orris  H.  Warren,  D.  D 1877 

James  Watson 1795 

William  H.  Watson 1881 

Abram  B.  Weaver,  ex-officio 18G8 

Peter  Wendell,  M.  D 1823 

Eilardus  Westerlo,  D.  D 1787 

Prosper  M.  Wetmore 1833 

Deidrich  Willcrs,  Jr.,  ex-officio 1874 

John  Williams May,  1784 

Nathan  Williams 1817 

Henry  Wisner May,  1784 

Stewart  L.  Woodford,  ex-officio 1867 

Hunlock  Woodruff Nov.,  1784 

John  Woodworth,  LL.D 1813 

Silas  Wright,  ex-officio 1845 

Abraham  Yates,  eoo-officio 1784 


CATALOGUE   OF   REGENTS.  209 

Christoplier  Yates May,  1784 

Christopher  P.  Yates May,  .1784 

Joseph  C.  Yates 1813 

Joseph  C.  Yates,  ex-officio 1823 

Peter  W.  Yates Nov.,  1784 

John  Young,  ex-officio 1847 

Samuel  Young 1817 

Samuel  Young,  ex-officio 1842 

IV.  Officers  of  the  Board  of  Regents,  from  its  organization, 
in  1784,  to  1881. 

Chancellors  of  ilie  University. 

George  Clinton May  5,  1784. 

John  Jay Jan.  20,  1790. 

George  Clinton Feb.  15,  1802. 

Morgan  Lewis Feb.  4,  1 805. 

Daniel  D.  Tompkins Feb.  8,  1808. 

John  Tayler Feb.  3,  1817. 

Simeon  De  Witt Mar.  24,  ]8-2<>. 

Stephen  Van  Rensselaer,  LL.D Jan.  8,  ]835. 

James  King Feb.  12,  1839. 

Peter  Wendell,  M.  D Jan.  13,  1842. 

Gerrit  Y.  Lansing,  LL.D Oct.  31,   1849. 

John  V.  L.  Pruyn,  LL.D Jan.  9,  1862. 

Erastus  C.  Benedict,  LL.D Jan.  11,  1878. 

Henry  R.^Pierson,  LL.D Jan.  13,  1881. 

Vice-  Chancellors, 

Pierre  Van  Cortlandt May  5,  1784. 

John  Jay July  17,  1787. 

John  Rodgers,  D.  D Mar.  31,  1790. 

John  Tayler Mar.  14,  1814. 

27 


210  UNIVERSITY   OF   bTATE   OF   NEW   YORK. 

Simeon  Do  Witt ,   Feb.  3,  1817. 

Elitiha  Jenkins Mar-  24,  18.9. 

Luther  Bradisli Jan.  13,  1842. 

Daniel  S.  Dickinson Jan.  12,  1843. 

Jolin  Greig Jan.  9,  1845. 

Gulian  C.  Vcrplanck,  LL.D July  13,  1858. 

Erastus   Corning April  21,    1870. 

Erastus  C.  Benedict,  LL.D Aug.  7,  1872. 

Henry  R,  rierson,  LL.D Jan.  11,   1878. 

George  W.  Clniton,  LL.D Jan.  13,  1881. 

Secretaries, 

Robert  Ilarpur May  5,  1784. 

Richard  Harrison,  LL.D July  17,  1787. 

Nathaniel  Lawrence April  7,  1790. 

De   Witt  Clinton,   LL.D Jan.  21,  1704. 

David  S.  Jones,  LL.D Jan.  23,  1 790. 

Francid  Bloodgood Mar.  19,   1708. 

Gideon  Hawley,  LL.D Mar.  25,   1814. 

T.  Romeyn    Beck,  M.  D.,  LL.D . . . .   May  25,  1841. 

Samuel  B.  Woolworth,  LL.D Dec.  4,  1855. 

David  Murray,  Ph.  D.,  LL.D   Jan.  11,  1880. 

Assistant  Secretary. 

Daniel  J.  Pratt,  Ph.  D Jan.  12,  1806. 

Honorary  Secretary. 

Samuel  B.  Woolworth,  LL.D Jan.  lO,  1880. 


CATALOGUE   OF   REGENTS.  -          211 


V.  Officers  and  Members  of  tlie  Board  of  Regents,  at  tlie  close 
of  the  Legislative  Session  of  1881. 

HENRY  U.  PIERSON,  LL.D.,  Ohancellor  nf  the  University,  Albany. 

GEORGE  W.  CLINTON,  LL.D.,  Vice-Chanc^Uor Buffalo. 

ALONZO  n.  CORNELL,  Governor,  ] 

GEOliGEG.nOfiKINS,  Lieutenant-Governor,  \  ^    ^^  .        .       ^    „ 
.TOSEPri  B.  CARR,  Secretary  of  State,  ^S^-0#cto,.. Albany. 


NEIL  GILMOUR,  Sup't  of  Public  Instruction,, 
Other  members  in  the  order  of  their  appointment: 

LORENZO  BURROWS Albion. 

ROBERTS.  HALE,  LL.D Elizabethtown. 

ELIAS  W.  LEAVENWORTH,  LL.D Sykacusk. 

J.CARSON    BREVOORT,  LL.D Brooklyn. 

GEORGE  W.  CURTIS,  LL.D...  West  New  Brighton. 

FRANCIS  KERNAN,  LL  D Utica. 

JOHN  L.LEWIS     Penn  Yan. 

MARTIN  I.  TOWNSEND,  LL.D Troy. 

REV.  ANSON  J.  UPSON,D.D.,LL.D  ...  , Auburn. 

WILLIAM  L    BOSTWTCK Ithaca. 

CHAUNCEY  M.  DEPEW New  York. 

CHARLES  E.  FITCH   Rochestek. 

REV.  ORRIS  H.  WARREN,  D.D Syracuse. 

LESLIE  W.  RUSSELL Canton. 

WHITELAWREID New  YORK. 

WILLIAMH.  WATSON,  M.D Utica. 

HENRY  E.TURNER Lowville. 


DAVID  MURRA.Y,  L.L.D.,  Secretary Albany. 

DAN  I  EL  J.  PRATT,  Ph  D.,  Assistant  Secretary Alb  an  y  . 


INDEX. 


Page. 

Academic  j-ear,  date  of  close  of,  to  be  fixed  by  trustees 38 

schobus,  defined.  . 130 

Academical  departments  of  union  free  schools,  authorized  to  be 

establisiied 23,    24 

subject  to  visitation  of  tiie  regents 24 

qualiflcation  for  entrance  to  24 

existintr  academies  may  be  adopted  as 24 

entitled  to  all  the  benefits  and  privileges  of  academies 26 

formed  by  adoption  of  existing  academies  may  again  become 

academies  when  union  school  districts  are  dissolved 26 

Academies,  how  incorporated 16 

may  be  incorporated  under  general  law 27 

(See  Incorporation.) 

property  of  incorporated,  vested  in  the  trustees 16 

corporate  names  of,  to  be  such  as  are  designated  in  the  appli- 
cations for  incorporation 16 

ajjplications  to  the  regents  for  the  incorporation  of,  to  be  made 

in  writing  and  to  set  forth  certain  facts. 16,107-109 

vested  with  general  powers  of  corporations  under  the  Revised 

Statutes. . .  .  17 

founded  on  capital  stock,  conditions  of  incorporation  of,  by 

the  regents 21,    22 

not  allowed  to  pay  dividends  to  stockholders  while  there  is 

any  outstanding  indebtedness 23 

charters  of,  subject  to  alteration,  amendment  or  repeal  by  the 

regents,  in  certain  cases 22 

charters  of  granted  by  the  regents,  with  applications  for  the 

same,  to  be  recorded  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of  said 

regents 16,    22 

charters,  etc.,  of,  recorded  in  office  of  secretary  of  state,  to  be 

also  recorded  in  office  of  secretary  of  regents 23 

may  be  adopted  as  academical  departments  of  union   free 

schools 24 

adopted  as  academical  departments  of  union  free  schools, 

may  be  restored  on  dissolution  of  union  school  districts...    26 

trustees  of  each,  declared  to  be  a  corporation 31 

powers  and  duties  (if  trustees  of 31-37 

no  religious  qualifications  to  be  required  of  any  officer  or 

member  of  incorporated  37 

no  professor  or  tutor  to  be  a  trustee  of 37 

no  principal  to  vote  as  trustee  in  regard  to  his  own  salary,  etc.    37 
termination  of  academic  year  to  be  declared  on  minutes  of 

trustees 38,    39 

annual  reports  of,  to  be  transmitted  to  the  regents  on  or 

before  the  first  of  October 39,  127 


214  INDEX. 


Academies,  annual  reports  of—Continued.  Page. 

to  he  attested  by  oath 39 

to  contain  names  and  aires  of  all  pupils 39 

statement  of  studies  pursued 39 

e^^timaLed  value  of  library,  ai)pHratus,  etc 39 

name-*  and  compensation  of  teachers 39 

account  of  funds,  etc 39 

statement  of  prt>perty,  and  of  literary  and  scientific 

condition,  duly  authenticated 126-129,  161-163 

form  of  annual  reports  of 161-163 

anruial   apporiujnment  of  income    of  literature  and   U.  y. 

depo:<it  funds  to  ba  nuide  to,  on  certairj  conditions 40-42 

requisite  valueof  buildinjr-^,  lil)ra!y  and  apparatus,  to  partici- 
pate in  distribution  of  literature  fund      41,    42 

receivinj;  I^TOO  or  more  from  the  literature  fund,  required  to 
e-tablish  and  maintain  h  department  for  the  instruction  of 

common  sell  >ol  tearliers     42 

required  to  apply  moneys  received  from  the  literature  fund 

to  the  payment  of  te;i(thers'  salaries 43 

appropriations  to,  for  purchase  of  books  and  apparatus,  con- 
ditions of  43 

rejrents  authorized  to  grant  relief  to,  in  certain  cases 44 

scliedule  of  distribution  to,  to  l)e  filed  witli  the  comptroller. .     42 

comptroller  to  draw  warrants  on  treasurer  in  favor  of 43 

animal   distril)ution  to,  etc.,  to  be  reported  by  the  regents  to 

the  h'gislature — 44 

appropriations  to,  for  instnu-tion  of  teachers' classes  ...     46,    47 
for  instrui'tion  in  physioIoL'y  and  the  laws  of  health,  etc.    46 
trustees  of .  required  to  furnisii  satisfactory  evidence  to  the 
regents,  that  teachers'  classes  have  been  thoroughly  in- 
structed  4T 

required  to  f\irnisli  to  comptrf)ller,  certificates  that  mem- 
i>ers  of  teachers'  classes  intend  tc»  follow  the  business  of 

teaching 47 

duty  of  trustees  of,  in  regard  to  paying  salaries  due  to 

teachers 145 

Academies,  etc.,  incori»orated,  eacdi  entitled  to  one  set  of  natural 

history  of  N.Y.,  atone  dollar  per  v«»'umc 73,74,76.80-82,    84 

Academies  and  union    schools,   regents  to  designate  tho?e  In 

wliich  instruction  of  coiumon  school  teacliers  shall  bogiven    40 
limitations  as  to  number  of  members  In  teacliers'  classes,  and 

time  of  instruction i;,    47 

Instruction    in    teachers'    classes  to  bo  froo  to  all  rcgtilar 

scholars —     47 

trustees  of  to  bo  paid  at  a  certain  rate  per  scholar  per  week.      47 
.^neid,  study  of,  a  requisite  for  classical  scholarship  in  acade- 
mies     41 

Afi&davit.  atuuial  reports  of  academies  to  bo  verified  by 39 

form  of,  in  case  of  application  for  an  appropriation  for  books 

and  apparatus 141 

by  presiding  ofB-  er  at  adoption  of  application  for  Incorpora- 
tion, etc..     114,118,122 

Air  pump  and  pneumatic  apparatus  recommended  foracademles,  143 

Amendments,  charter,  power  of  regents  in  reg  ml  to     2i 

notice  of  applications  for,  to  be  published  in  state  paper,  etc.  109 
American  museum  of  natural  history,  duplicate  spec'tnena  of 

natural  history  belonging  to  the  state  to  be  presented  to 57,    53 

Annual  meeting  of  the  board  of  regents,  when  and  where  held . .      3 
(iSee  Meetings.) 


INDEX.  215 

Pa^re. 

Annual  report  of  resrents  of  university,  to  he  made  to  the  legis- 
lature within  ten  days  after  opeiiinfj:  of  session 4.      5 

on  the  oondition  of  tlie  State  Nonnul  School  (at  Albany),  to 
be  made  to  the  lejjislature,  by  the  superintendent  of  public 

instruction  and  regents 46 

Annual  reports  of  colleges,  etc.,  subject  to  the  visitation  of  the 

regents,  laws  relative  to ;i8,    39 

forma  of 158-163 

for  literary  colleges  158-lfil 

medical  colleges  and  law  schools , KU 

academies    161-163 

of  law  libraries  of  second,  fourth  and  eighth  judicial  districts. 

to  be  made  to  the  regents  ..    95-!i8 

as  to  booi<s  added  to  libraries  of  court  of  appeals  at  Rochester 

and  Syracuse 98 

(See  Reports.) 
Apparatus,  etc.,  of  academies,  estimated  value  of ,  to  be  given 

in  annual  reports  to  the  re^'ents  —     39 

suitable,  fco   be    ])rovided  by  academies,    as  a  condition   of 

sharing  in  distribution  of  literature  fund 41 

appropriations  for  the  purchase  of  books  and.  for  tiie  benefit 

of  acadenues ..     43 

conditions  on  which  money  is  granted  by  the  regents  for  the 

purchase  of  books  and 136-141 

kinds  of,  reconiMiended  for  academies 143 

Application  to  the  regents  for  the  incorporation  of  colleges  and 
acctdetnies  to  be  made  in  writing,  andt«>set  forth  certain 

facts l.i,    16 

to  be  recorded  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of  the  board.. .  16,  2:i 
notice  of,  for  amendments  of  charters,  to  be  printed  in  the 

state,  and  in  a  local  paper,  for  six  weeks 109 

forms  of,  for  incorporation  of  academies  109-123 

for  absolute  charter        109-115 

for  provisional  charter,  founded  on  capital  stock 1 16-118 

on  donations    120-123 

for  declaring  provisional  charter  absolute 123 

for  making  an   academy  incorporated  by  the  legislature 

subject  to  visitation  by  the  regents ..     133,134 

for  making  the  academical  Jepartment  of  a  union  school 

subject  to  visitation  , 124.  125 

for  money  to  be  expended  in  punihase  of  books  and   appa- 
ratus, may  be  made  on  certain  conditions  136 

form  of 140,  141 

Apportionment  of  literature  and  U.  S.  deposit  funds.  (See  Dis- 
tribution, etc . ) 

Appropriation  for  re-survey  of  state  boutidary  lines,  etc 10,     13 

annual,  for  examinations  as  to  attainments  in  learning. .     12,     13 
Appropriations  for  purchase  of  books,    etc.,  for  the  benefit  of 

academies,  laws  relative  to 43 

when  made 1.38,  139 

to  academies  for  instruction  of  common  school  teachers.. 46,    47 

to  be  paid  only  on  certain  conditions 47 

Assistant  secretary  of  board  of  regents 3,210,211 

Attendance,  non-,  of  regents  of  university  during  session  of  legis- 
lature, Mithout  satisfactory  reasons,  deemed   a  resignation 4 

Binghamton  law  library  of  sixth  judicial  district  established  at, 
under  care  of  justices  of  sixth  judicial  district  and  supervi- 
sors of  Broome  county  97 

library  at,  reports  to  supervisors  of  Broome  county  only.  ...    97 


216  iiq-DEX. 


Page. 
Boards  of  education,  power  of,  to  establish  academical  depart- 

nients 23,     24 

Books,  etc.,  in  state  library,  proper  and  safe-keeping  of 49 

duplicate,  etc,  in  state  library,  may  be  sold  or  exchanged  ...     49 
character  of,  as  recommended  by  the  regents  for  academy 

libi-aries 142 

of  record,  to  be  kept  by  academies  144.  145 

Books  and  apparatus,  appropriations  for  the  purchase  of,  forthe 

beneQt  of  academies 43 

conditions  on  which  money  may  be  granted  for  the  pur- 
chase of  , — l:J6-141 

Boundaries  of  the  state  of  New  York,  regents  directed  to  take 

action  relative  to  monuments  on  10 

api)ropriation3  for  expenses  incurred 10,    1:3 

progress  of  work  and  account  of  all  expenditures  to  be  re- 
ported to  legislature 10,    11 

regents  to  appoint  three  of  their  number  commissioners..  10,    12 

action  of  commissioners  to  be  reported  to  legislature .12 

Brooklyn,  law  library  of  second  judicial  district  established  at, 
under  care  of  trustees  of  law  library  of  city  of  Brooklyn, 

and  of  justices  of  supreme  court  of  second  district 95 

trustees   of,  to  make  annual  reports  to  the  regents  of  the 

university 95 

BroOme  county,  supervisors  of,  charged,  jointly  with  justices  of 

fourth  judicial  district  with  care  of  law  library  of  said  district.  .     97 
Buffalo,  law  library  of  eighth  judicial  district,  established  at, 

under  care  of  trustees  of  Grosvenor  library.. .  .     97 

subject  also  to  rules  established  by  justices  of  eighth  judicial 

district    97,    98 

trustees  of,  to  make  aimual  reports  to  the  regents  of  the 

university 93 

trstees  of  state  library  authorized  to  place  duplicates  In OS 

By-laws  and  ordinances,  regents  authorized  to  make 7 

trustees  of  medical  colleges  incorporated  by  the  regents, 

authorized  to  make 19,    20 

trustees  of  colleges  and  academies  authorized  to  make.. .    31,    33 

Caesar's   Commentaries,    study  of,  as  a  requisite  for    classical 

scholarship  in  academies : 132 

Catalogue  of  books,  etc.,  added  to  the  state  library  each  year  to 

be  reported  to  the  legislature 49,    60 

of  !)ooks  added  to  certain  law  libraries  to  bo  reported  to  the 

regents    ...  i5,  9(),    98 

Catalogues  of  apparatus,  suitable  for  academies,  maybe  obtaine.l 

from  maiuifacturers 143 

Catalogues,  etc.,  of  colleges  and  academies,  copies  of,  should  bo 

sentHJthe  regents 15S.  189 

Certlflcate,  by  common  school  trustee  or  principal  teacher,  as  to 
qualifications  of  scholars  to  be  admitted  to  regents'  prelimi- 
nary examination  14 

for  incorporation  under  general  act,  how  made  and  what  to 

contain ; 28 

Certlflcate,  of  academic  scholarship,  to  be  granted  to  scholars 

who  pass  the  preliminary  academic  examination 131,  153 

form  of,  by  president  or  secretary  of  academy  to  the  offlclal 

character  of  the  treasurer 138 

regents'  Intermediate,  when  granted 157 


INDEX.  217 


Page. 

Certificate,  honorary,  may  be  awarded  to  persons  who  pass  ex- 
aminations as  to  attainments  in  learning 13 

Chancellor  of  the  board  of  rettents,  office  of,  constituted  3 

m-dical  examiners  to  report  to 8 

orders  of,  to  medical  examiners,  to  be  preserved 8,      9 

certain  duties  of 3 

in  relation  to  state  museum  of  natural  history 55 

medical  examinations  —     9,148,  151 

ex-offlcio  presiding  officer  of  university  convocation 183 

executive  committee  of    university  convocation  to    be   ap- 
pointed by  the  regents  and  announced  by 184 

committee  of  necrology  to  be  appointed  by Ibi 

at  the  present  time,  1881 — 211 

Chancellor  and  secretary  of  the  board  of  resents,  authentication 

of  copies  of  records,  etc.,  by,  authorized  by  law 14,23,    51 

instructions  in  regard  to  preliminary  academic  examinations 

to  be  issued  by. 130 

certificates  of  academic  scholarship  to  be  signed  by 131 

apportionment  of  literature  fund  to  be  certified  by 42,  135 

Chancellors  of  the  board  of  regents,  from  1784,  list  of ...  209 

"Chancellor's  library,"   re  orgaJiization  of,  as  conrt  of  appeals' 

libraries,  at  Rochester  and  Syracuse 92,    93 

Charters  of  incorporation,   granted  by  the  regents,  and  amend- 
ments of  charters,  with  applications  for  same,  to  be  recorded 

in  office  of  secretary  of  board 22 

fees  fur  recording,  abolished ^ 23 

recorded  in  office  of  secretary  of  state,  to  be  also  recorded  in 

office  of  secretary  of  regents  ...    23 

subject  to  alteration,  amendment  or  repeal  by  the  regents  in 

certain  cases 23 

notice  of  application  for  amendment  of,  to  be  printed  in  the 

state,  and  in  a  local  paper,  for  six  weelis 109 

of  medical  colleges,  may  be  vacated  and  annulled  by  the 

regents  in  certain  cases 19 

provisional,  of  medical  colleges,  conditions  on  which  granted 

by  the  regents  ana  made  perpetual 18 

of  literary  colleges,  do .     103,104 

academies      105,  116,  120 

of  academies,  forms  of  ..   115-124 

alDSolute 115,  IK!,  123 

provisional 119,120,  123 

Chemical  apparatus  recommended  for  academy  libraries 143 

Cicero,   study   of,  as  a  requisite    for   classical    scholarship  in 

academies 132 

Classical  scholars,  defined 41,  132 

Clerks  of  Senate  and  Assembly,  duties  of,  in  regard  to  legislative 

papersonfile 100-102 

College  of  dentistry.  New  York.  (See  New  York  college  of  dentMry.) 

authorized  to  confer  degrees,  etc.,  with  consent  of  regents.      5 

Colleges,  how  incorporated  by  the  regents    15-18, 10:3,  104 

application  to  the  regents  for  incorporation  of,  to  be  made 

in  writing,  and  to  set  forth  certain  facts 15,  IT,  103 

corporate  names  of,  to  be  as  designated  by  their  founders.  15,    17 

corporate  rights  and  pri  vileges  of        — 15,  18-20 

trustees  of  each  declared  to  be  a  corporation 29 

seniority  of  trustees  of,  how  determined 29 

meeting  of  trustees  of,  when  and  on  what  notice  held 29 

powers  and  duties  of  trustees  of 29-31,     37 


218  -    INDEX. 

Colleges— Continued.  Page. 

number  and  quorum  of  trustees  of 29 

diplomas  granted  by  trustees  of,  effect  of '61 

trustees  of,   authorized  to  hold  property  by  gift,  grant  or 

devise,  and  to  dispose  thereof 30 

not  allowed  to  have  or  Institute  a  faculty  to  teach  medicine, 
in  any  other  place   than  where  the  charter   locates  the 

college 31 

annual  reports  of,  to  be  transmitted  to  regents  on  or  before 

Octoberflrst 33 

incorporated,  natural  history  volumes  to  be  distributed  to.  63,    69 
Incorporatlonof,  ordlnanceof  the  regents  respecting  the.  10;J,  lOt 

form  of  annual  reports  of  .. 158-161 

Colleges  and  academies,  no  religious  qualification  to  be  required 

of  any  officer  or  member  of  incorporated — 37 

no  president  or  principal,  beluga  trustee, to  vote  In  regard 

to  his  own  salary,  etc  37 

trustees  of,  declared  to  he  corporations 29,    31 

powers  and  duties  of  trustees  of 30,    37 

income  of  trust  funds  for  the  benefit  of,  may  be  allowed  to 

accunnilate 7 

incorporated  by  the  regents,  vested  with  general  powers  of 

cori)orations  under  the  Itevised  Statutes 17 

charters  of,  granted  by  regents,  with  applications  for  same, 
to  be  recorded  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of  the  board 

of  regents 16,22,    23 

subject  to  alteration,  amendment  or  repeal,  by  the  re- 
gents, in  certain  cases ■ 22 

recorded  In  office  of  secretary  of  state,  to  be  also  recorded 

In  office  of  secretary  of  regents  23 

may  be  Incorporated  under  general  act 27 

subject  to  visitation  by  the  regents,  laws  relative  to  annml 

reports  of 3>^    39 

required  to  make  such  returns  as  the  regents  may  require,  in 

regard  to  property,  etc 38 

annual  reports  of,  to  be  transmitted  to  regents  on  or  before 

Octoberflrst 38 

requested  to  recognize  official  connection  with  the  university, 

In  their  catalogues 189 

forms  of  annual  reports  of,  may  be  printed  by  the  state 

printer 3^ 

Colleges,  medical,  how  Incorporated  by  the  regents 17,    13 

charters  of,  so  incornorated,  may  be  vacated  and  annulled  by 

the  regents  for  failure  to  invest  corporate  funds 19 

incorporated  by  the  regents,  amount  of  property  that  may  be 

held  by ..   .      18,    19 

property  of,  not  to  be  applied  to  other  than  legitimate  uses.    19 
8ul)jectto  general  provisions  of  Revised  Statutes,  to  visita- 
tion by  the  regents,  etc 19 

trustees  of,  to  bo  not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  twenty- 
four 19,    20 

authorized  to  confer  degree  of  doctor  of  medicine  on 

(;ertaln  conditions 20 

required  to  instruct  a  limited  number  of  indigent  scholars 

free  of  charge 20,    SJI 

(See  Medical  CoUeuei*.) 
Colonial  history  of  New  Yorlc,  laws  relative  to  publication  of...  69-66 

copies  of  documents  to  be  procured 50 

when  procured  to  be  deposited  in  office  of  secretary  of  state.    69 


INDEX.  .  219 


Colonial  history  of  New  York— Continued.  Page, 

such  MS.  documents,  or  portions  thereof,  to  be  translated 

and  printed 59 

governor,  secretary  of  state  and  comptroller  to  have  charge 

of  translation  and  publication CO 

contract  for  printing  to  be  made 60 

state  officers  authorized  to  stereotype  and  to  secure  or  sell 

CDpyright 60 

distributicm  of,  how  to  be  made 60-66 

sale  of,  authorized  61,    63 

niiniraum  price,  per  volume,  fixed 63 

f>roceeds  of  sales  to  be  paid  Into  state  treasury 61,    63 
egislature,  members,  etc.,  of,  to  receive  copies  of... 60-63,  64-66 

state  officers  to  receive  copies  of 61,63,61,     65 

publication  to  be  completed  under  direction  of  regents..  .61,  63 
regents  vested  with  discretionary  powers  as  to  subject-matter.  63 
copies  of,  authorized  to  be  used  for  the  purpose  of  literary 

exchanges 61-65 

by  secretary  of  state  and  comptroller 61 

regents  63-65 

additional  volumes  of,  necessary  to  complete  sets  voluntarily 

distributed,  to  be  supplied 63,64 

repeal  of  provision  of  1856,  as  to  supplying  public  officers..  63,  04 

amendment  of  acts  of  1856  and  1857 64,  65 

act  of  1857  not  to  be  construed  as  depriving  legislature  of  1856 

of  future  volumes  ... 64 

remaining  copies  reserved  for  literary  exchanges 61-65 

index    volume    to  be  published  and   distributed  in   same 

manner  as  other  volumes 65 

legislative  officers  included  in    provisions  for   distribution 

of 61,63,64-66 

legislative  reporters  so  included  .63,  64-66 

rebinding  of  damaged  volumes  of,  authorized 66 

printing  of  volume  twelve,  under  direction  of  secretary  of 

state,  provided  for 66 

continued  publication  of,  provided  for 66 

set  of ,  now  includes  thirteen  volumes 66 

Columbia  college,  other  incorporated  colleges  to  enjoy  the  same 

rights  and  privileges  as 15 

Commencement,   university,  to  be  held  annually,   at  time  of 

convocation 186 

Commissioners,  boundary,  to  be  appointed  by  regents 11,     ]2 

action  of ,  to  be  reported  to  legislature 12 

Committee,  executive,  of  State  Normal  School,  how  constituted, 

etc 45 

joint  library,  duty  of,  relative  to  legislative  papers 103 

executive,  of  university  convocation,  how  constituted,  etc..  184 

of  necrology,  how  constituted,  etc 184 

Committees,  standing,  of  regents  of  the  university,  to  meet  on 

morning  of  day  of  annual  meeting —     189 

Comnjon  school  scholars,  eligible  to  admission  to  regents'  pre- 
liminary examination,  on  certificate  of  principal  teacher  or  a 

trustee 14 

Common  school  teachers,   academies  receiving  $700  or  more, 
from    the     literature    fund    required    to     establish    and 

maintain  a  department  for  the  instruction  of 43 

provision  made    by  the  state  for  the  instruction  of,  under 

direction  of  the  regents  45-47 

instruction  of ,  by  academies,  course  of ,  etc  168-171 


2J^0  INDEX. 


Page. 
Comptroller,    schedule  of  distribution  of  literature  fund  to  be 

delivered  to 42,  135 

certificate  in  regard  to  instruction  of  teaciiers' classes  to  be 

f  urnisiied  to 47 

appropriations  to  academies,  for  purchase  of  books  and  ap- 
paratus, to  be  certified  to .        13T 

warrant  to  be  drawn  by,  in  favor  of  each  institution,   for 

amounts  from  literature  fund. 43,  1^5 

fur  instruction  of  teachers'  classes 46,    47 

purchase  of  books  and  apparatus 43 

Concurrent  resolutions.    (See  ResoJutionn.) 

Contributions,  for  library  and  apparatus,  to  be  in  money,  when 

like  amounts  from  the  regents  are  applied  for 138 

Convocation.  (See  University  (Convocation.) 

Copies  of  and  extracts  from  records  in  custody  of  regents  may 

be  used  in  evidence,  when  duly  certified  U,  23,    51 

certified,  of  legislative  papers,  authorized  to  be  made  and  used 

as  evidence  101,  103 

Cornell  library,duplicate  fossllsand  minerals  to  be  presented  to.56,    57 

authorized  to  transfer  same  to  Cornell  university 57 

Cornell    university,    duplicate   fossils  and  minerals  to  be  pre- 
sented to,  in  the  name  of  the  state 57 

Corporations,trusteeaof  colleges  and  academies  declared  tobe.29,    31 
stock,  for  literary,  scientific,  charitable  or  religious  purposes, 

how  formed  21 

for  literary,  etc.,  purposes,  conditions  of  incorporation  of, 

bytheregents  21,    22 

Coufseof  study  and  discipline,  tru.stees of  colleges  and  academies 

authorized  to  prescribe 30,    32 

form  of  reporting,  for  literary  colleges 159 

Court  of  appeals,  copies  of  reports  of,  to  be  deposited  in  the 

state  library 51 

judges  of,  entitled  to  take  books  from  the  state  library 51 

rough  minutes  of,  cited  93 

duties  of  judges  of,  in  establishing  libraries 92-94 

libraries  of,  at  Rochester  and  Syracuse,  how  established..  92,    »3 
librarians  of,  to  be  appointed  by  the  regents  of  the  university.    93 
provision  for  salaries  of  librarians  of,    and   for  other  ex- 
penses   .  9.S,    94 

rules  to  be  framed  for  libraries  of,  by  the  regents 94,    95 

libraries  for  the  four  elected  judges  of,  how  constituted  and 

increased    93.    94 

clerks  of,  to  perform  certain  duties  in  regard  to  law  librarles.93,  94 
library  of,  at  Syracuse,  located  in  Of th  judicial  district  ...  97 
library  of,  at  Rochester,  located  In  seventh  judicial  district..    97 

Cycioptedlas,  etc.,  recommended  for  academy  libraries  143 

Debts  and  incumbrancps,  of  academies,  ordinance  in  regard  to.  106 
Degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine,  persons  recelvlngsame  from  the  re- 
gents, authorized  to  prac^tlce  physic  and  surgery 5 

requisites  for  diploma  from  the  recents  conferring 5,      6 

trustees  of  medical   colleges  incorporated  by  the  regents, 

authorized  to  confer  the  same  on  certain  conditions 20 

New  York  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  authorized  to 

confer,  etc 5 

honorary,  may  be  conferred  by  the  regents  upon  a  limited 
number  of  persons  recommended  by  the  State  Medical 
Society,  and  the  HomtEopathlo State  Medical  Society...      6 

not  a  license  to  practice  physic  and  surgery 6 

conferred  by  any  medical  college,  not  a  license  to  practice... .    81 


IXDEX.  221 


Page. 
Degree  of  Doctor  of  Dental  Surgrery,  may  be  conferred  by  the 

N.  Y.  College  of  Dentistry, with  consent  of  regents 5 

Degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  of  University  of  State  of  New  York, 

regents  authorized  to  confer 9 

Degrees,   regents   of  the  university  authorized  to   confer  cer- 
tain   5,6,9,     13 

trustees  of  colleges  authorized  to  grant 31 

conferred  l)y  literary  colleges,  form  of  reporting 159 

honorary,  conferred  by  the  regents,  list  of 175-181 

Doctor  of  Laws 1T5 

Doctor  of  Civil  Law...  1TB 

Doctor  of  Literature 1T6 

Doctor  of  Philosophy 176,177 

Doctor  of  Medicine.   .., 177 

on  nomination  of  State  Medical  Society 177-181 

on  nomination  of  Homoeopatiiic  Medical  Society 181 

Doctor  of  Medicine  of  University  of  State  of  New  York,  177 
Dentistry,  New  York  college  of.  (See  New  York  CollegGof  Dentistry.) 

Di(ttionaries,  etc.,  to  be  placed  in  academy  libraries 143 

Diploma,     from    the    regents,   conferring    degree    of    M.    D., 

requisites  for 5,6,       9 

regents',  for  academic  examinations 157 

Diplomas,  regents  of  the  university  authorized  to  confer  certain 

degrees  by,  under  their  common  seal 5 

may  be  awarded  by  the  regents,  at  discretion,  to  those  who 

pass  examination  as  to  attainments  in  learning 13 

from  State  Normal  School,  as  evidence  of  qualification  to 

teach ..     4) 

trustees  of  colleges  authorized  to  grant  literary  honors  by     . .    31 
Distribution  of  income  of  literature  and  U.  S.  deposit  funds, 

liws  relative  to  40-42 

ordinances  relative  to 133-14:3 

(See  Literature  Fund.) 
District  schools,  incorporated   Lancasterian   and  other   selecjt 

schools  convertible  into 33,  37 

Districts,  union  free  school,  may  be  dissolved,  how 24,  25 

Dividends  to    stockholders  in   institutions    of    learning,     not 

allowed  while  there  is  any  outstanding  indebtedness 22 

Doctor  of  medicine,  etc.;  degrees  of,  etc.    (see  Degrees.) 
Documents,    legislative,    copies  of  all  extra,  to  be  furnished  to 

the  State  library r>2 

colonial.    (See  Colonial  History.) 
Draft,  form  of,  for  money  apportioned  from  literature  fund,  135,  V.6 

for  purchase  of  books  and  apparatus 142 

Eclectic  Medical  Society  of  the  State  of  New  Y'ork,  medical  ex- 
aminers appointed  on  application  of 147 

Electrical  apparatus,  recommended  for  academy  libraries It3 

Employment  of  teachers,  ordinance  in  regard  to 145 

Encyclopaedias,  etc.,  to  be  placed  in  academy  libraries 142 

Endowment  of  any  college  or  university,    under  general  act, 

limited  to  one  million  dollars 27 

Evidence,  certified  copies  of,  and  extracts  from  all  records,  etc., 

in  custody  of  regents,  may  be  used  in 14,  23,     51 

Examination,  in  writing,  to  be  held  in  academies 130,  131 

and  classification  of  academy   scholars,  with  reference  to 
distribution  of  literature  fund 130-132 


222  IXDEX. 


Examination,  in  writing — Continued.  Page. 

provisional,  in  academies,  abolished .131,  1;)2 

members  of  teachers*  classes  ia  academies,  required  to  pass.  167 
Examinations,  as  to  attainments  in  learning,  annual  appropria- 
tion for,  to  regents 12,     13 

regents  directed  to  establish  in  academies,  etc 13 

regents  authorized  to  establish,  for  any  person  applying  for 

the  same 13 

expenses  of,  to  be  audited  and  certified  io  comptroller. . .  .13,     14 
provision  fur  admitting  qualified  common  school  scholars  to 

preliminary 14 

suitable  degrees,  honorary  certificates  or  diplomas  may  ba 

awarded  by  regents 13 

income  of  literature  fund  to  be  apportioned  in  part  on  results 

of  advanced  academic 40 

Examinations,  academic,  purposes  of 151 

design  and  subjects  of  the  preliminary 151,  152 

subjects  of  the  advanced 152,  153 

candidates,  requirements  as  to 153,154,  156 

supervision  of,  by  coniiiiittees 155,  156 

question  papers,  how  to  be  ordered  and  sent 155,  156 

answer  papers,  re-examined  under  direction  of  regents 156 

testimonials  granted  to  successful  candidates 156,  157 

Examinations,  medical,  subjects  of 8 

reports  of,  etc.,  to  be  part  of  public  recordsof  university., 8,      9 
candidates  for 9 

Sualifications  of  candidates 9 
iploma  to  be  issued  to  successful  candidates 9 

preliminary  fee  of  not  less  than  $35  required  by  law 9 

fee  of  not  less  than  $10  for  diploma  required 9 

regents  authorized  to  establish  rules  and  regulations  for. ...     10 

list  of  examiners 146,  147 

rules  and  regulations  for 147-151 

perquisites  for  entering 147 

chancellor  to  give  certificate  and  issue  order  to  an  examining 

board.. 148 

chairman  of  board  to  convene  members,  etc 148 

board  of  examiners  authorized  to  make  rules,  for  certain 

purposes 148 

candidates,  how  to  be  examined 148-150 

general  sets  of  questions  to  be  prepared  by  examiners . .  150 

candidates  may  receive  special  notice  fordistinguished  merit.  150 

degree  to  be  conferred  on  successful  candidates 150 

secretary  of  regents  authorized  to  disburse  amount  of  fees 

from  candidates,  for  expenses 151 

chancellor  may  fill  vacancies  in  boards  of  examiners,   by 

temporary  appointment. 151 

secretary  of  regents  to  furnish  copies  of  rules  and  ret;ulatlons 
for  exanilnatl(ms  in  inedicMne  to  presidents  of  medical  soci- 
eties and  col  iejres  of  the  state 151 

vacancies  in  boards  of  examiners,  how  to  be  filled 151 


INDEX.  223 

Page. 
Examiners  in  medicine,  boards  of,  to  be  appointed  by  tlie  re- 
gents       8 

qualifications  and  duties  of.. 8 

lists  of 146,  147 

Exciianges,   literary,  copies  of  all  extra  legislative  documents, 

etc.,  to  be  delivered  to  trustees  of  state  library  for 53 

surplus  copies  of  colonial  history  placed  at  disposal  of  regents 

for 61-65 

copies  of  natural  history  authorized  to  be  delivered  to  regents 

for .81,    82 

Executive  committee  of  state  normal  school,  how  constituted, 

etc 45 

of  university  convocation,  how  constituted 184 

Expenditures  for  state  boundary  i)urposes,  to  be  reported  to  the 

lejiislature 10,    13 

for  examinations,  to  be  audited  and  certified  by  regents,  to 

com|)troller 13,14 

for  state  museum,  to  be  made  by  director,  and  approved  by 

regents 56 

by  academies,  of  moneys  received  from  regents,  etc.,  to  be 

reported  annually 39,  137,  123 

Faculties  of  colleges,  etc. ,  members  of,  disqualified  from  serving 

as  regents  of  the  university 2 

of  medical  colleges,  degree  of  doctor  of  medicuie  may  be 

conferred  by  trustees,  on  the  recommendation  of 20 

not  to  teach  science  of  medicine  in  any  other   place   than 

where  the  charter  locates  the  college 31 

Fees  for  recording  charters,  etc.,  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of 

the  regents,  abolished 23 

Form  of  annual  reports  of  academies 161-163 

of  colleges 158-161 

application  for  incorporation,  etc  109-135 

application  for  api»ointmeut  to  instruct  a  teachers'  class. 

164,  165 

pledge  to  be  given  by  members  of  teachers' classes 168 

report  to  be  made  on  instruction  of  a  teachers'  class 173-174 

Founders  of  colleges  to  make  known  to  the  regents  the  plan  on 
which,    and  the  funds  with  which,  the  same  are  to  be 

founded  and  endowed,  etc 15 

of  academies   may  apply  to  the  regents  for  an  act  of  in- 
corporation      16 

of  medical  colleges  may  apply,  by  certificate,  to  the  regents 

for  incorporation 17,     18 

of  Lancasterian  schools,  may  apply  to  the  regents  for  in- 
corporation      26 

Fund,  literature,  etc.  (See  Literatiire  Fund.) 

Gazetteers,  etc.,  to  be  placed  in  academy  libraries 143 

b lobes,  maps,  etc.,  appropriations  for  purchase  of,  for  benefit 

of  academies 43 

recommended  for  academy  libraries 143 

Grants  made  to  the  regents  for  certain  purposes,   not  to  be  di- 
verted to  other  uses 7 

Gratuitousaid  to  college  students  to  be  reported 160 

Grosvenor  library,  trustees  of,  charged  with  care  of  law  library 

of  eighth  judicial  district  97,  98 

Homoeopathic  Medical  Society  of  the  State  of  New  York,  author- 
ized to  rocommend  persons  for  lionorary  degree  of  M.  D. . .      6 

medical  examiners  appointed  on  apph'cation  of 146 

honorary  degree  of  M.  D.  conferred  on  recommendation  of. .  181 


224  *  IXDEX. 


Honorary  degrees.  (See  Degrees.)  Page. 

Hydrostatic  apparatus,  recommended  for  academies 143 

Income,   annual,  limit  of,  from  i)roperty  authorized  to  be  held 

by  the  regents  of  the  university 1 

from  trust-funds  for  benefit  of  colleges,  etc.,  may  be  allowed 

to  accumulate 7 

Incorporation,  general  act  of  1848  for  incorporation  of  benevo- 
lent, charitable,  scientific  and  missionary  societies,  deemed 
to  authorize  incorporation  of  any  educational  institution . .     27 

provisions  of  said  act  as  amended 27,    28 

endowment  of  any  institution  incorporated  under,  author- 
ized to  the  amount  of  $1,000,000 27 

certificate  in  writitij?  to  be  made  and  filed 2i 

written  consent  and  approbation  of   a  justice  of   supreme 

court  required 28 

Incorporation  of  academies,  laws  relative  to —  ...10,  17,  21-23 

ordinances  of  the  rejrents  of  the  university  respecting 105-123 

charters  granted,  either  absolute  or  provisional IO'j 

requirements  for  absolute  and  provisi(jnal  cliarters 105,  106 

applications  for,  to  set  forth  evidence  of  title  and  value 
of  grounds,  description  and  value  of  buildings,  catalogues 
of  library  and  apparatus,  incumbranceson  property,  etc..  107-109 

forms  of  application  for 109-123 

Incorporation  of  academies,    forms  of  application    for,    with 

absolute  charter 105H15 

with  provisional  charter llG-lxS 

founded  on  capital  stock 116-118 

donatio!is  or  endowments 120-12:} 

for  declaring  provisional  charter  absolute 123 

making  academy  incorporated  by  the  legislature  subject 

to  visitation 123,  124 

making  academic  department  of  union  school  subject 

to  visitation.... 124,   125 

Incorporation  of  colleges,  laws  relative  to' 15-23,    27 

ordinance  of  th«  regents  respecting  the 103,   104 

buildings  and  funds  to  the  amount  of  one  hundred  thousand 

dollars  required  as  a  condition  of.... 103 

provisional  charter  to  be  granted  for  five  years  In  case  the 

funds  are  not  duly  invested  104 

Incorporation  of  educati»)nal  Institutions,  general  act  for 27,    28 

stock  (companies  for  literary,  etc  ,  purposes,  by  the  regents, 

conditions  of 21,22,115,110-120 

Instruction  of  common  school  teachers,  provision  luade  by  the 

state  for,  under  direction  of  the  regents 45-47 

directions  (concerning 101-174 

Instructions  for  holding  preliminary  academic  examination,  to 

be  given ..     130 

relative  to  teachers'  classes  In  academies 107-174 

Judicial  district  libraries,  establishmenfof 95-9S 

tnistees  of  state  llbrarv  authorized  to  place  duplicates  In 
lli)rarles  of  first,  fourth  and  eighth  judicial  districts.  .U5,  06,    98 

Lancasterlan  schools,  how  Incorporated  26,    27 

charters  of,  and  applications  therefor  to  be  recorded  In  olBces 
of  county  clerks  of  counties  In  which  they  are  established.     27 

property  atul  funds  of,  vested  In  trustees, 27 

subject  to  control  and  visitation  of  the  regents 27,     37 

required  to  make  such  reports  as  the  regents  may  require. 27,    37 
Lancasterlan  and  select  schools,  trustee's  of  declared  to  be  cor- 
porations     i 3'> 

powers  of  trustees  of 35.  8 J 


•     INDEX.  •  225 

Lancasterian  schools— Cow^mw^.  Page. 

maybe  made  district  schools — ..36,  37 

subject  to  visitation  of  the  regents  when  incorporated, , 37 

Latin  languagre,  competent  knowledge  of,  required  of  candidates 

for  medical  examinations 9 

(See  CcBsar,  Cicero,  Sallust  and  Virgil.) 

Law  library  of  first  judicial  district,  establishment  of 95 

of  second  judicial  district 95 

of  third  judicial  district 95.    96 

(See  also  i^tate  Library.) 

fourth  judicial  district 96 

fifth  judicial  district 96,    97 

sixth  judicial  district 97 

seventh  judicial  district  (court  of  appeals',  at  Rochester) —    97 

eighth  judicial  district 97,  98 

Law  libraries,  certain  local,  founded  by  the  state 92-99 

of  judges  of  the  late  supreme  court,  etc.,  to  be  re-organized 

for  the  judges  of  the  court  of  appeals 93,94 

of  the  several  judicial  districts,  established 95-98 

trustees  of  the  state  library  authorized  to  place  duplicates 

in  those  of  first,  fonrth  and  eighth  districts  95,  96,    98 

Laws  relative  to  the  university  of  the  state,  and  the  organization 

and  powers  of  the  board  of  regents 1-103 

Lectures,  free  scientific,  to  be  established  in  connection  with 

State  Museum  of  Natural  History  55,  56 

Legislative  papers,    (See  Manuscripts.) 

Legislature,  annual  report  to  be  made  to,  by  the  regents  of  the 
university  In  regard  to  institutions  reporting  to  them — 4,  5,    44 

In  regard  to  state  normal  school 46 

in  regard  to  state  library 49,    50 

progress  of  work  on  re-survey  of  boundaries,  etc.,  to  be  re- 
ported to 10,    13 

condition  of  legislative   pa^iers  on  file,  etc.,  to  be  reported 

to ..  103 

apportionment  of  literature  fund  to  be  reported  to 44 

members  of,  entitled  to  take  books  from  the  state  library —    50 

vacancies  in  the  board  of  regents  to  be  reported  to 4 

Librarians,  of  state  librarj-,  to  be  appointed  by  the  trustees 48 

subject  to  removal  by  trustees 48 

duties  of 49 

directions  to  l>e  given  to.  by  trustees 49 

liable  to  amercement  for  violation  or  neglect  of  duty 49 

of  court  of  appeals'  libraries,  to  be  appointed  by  the  regents 

of  the  university 93 

provisions  in  regard  to  salaries  of 93,  94 

Libraries,  suitable,  to  be  provided  by  academies  as  a  condition  of 

sharing  in  distribution  of  literature  fund. 41 

character  of  books  recommended  for 143,  143 

of  academies,  estimated  value  of,to  be  given  in  annual  reports 

to  the  regents 39 

certain  local  law,  founded  by  the  state 93-99 

of  the  judges  of  the  late  supreme  court,  etc.,  to  be  re-organ- 
ized for  the  judges  of  the  court  of  appeals  93,    94 

judicial  district,  establishment  of* 95-98 

trustees  of  state  library  authorized  to  place  duplicates  in 

libraries  of  first,  fourth  and  eighth  districts 95,  96,    98 

(See  Law  Libraries.) 
Library,  Grosven or,  trustees  of,  charged  with  care  of  law  library 

of  eighth  judicial  district 97 

state,  laws  relative  to  (;are  of 48-53 

(See  State  Library.) 


226  IKDEX. 

License  to  practice  physic  and  surjrery:  Page, 

degree  of  M.  D.  conferred  by  regents,  equivalent 5,      9 

honorary  degree  of  M.  D,  conferred  by  regents  not  equiva- 

lentto...      . 6 

degree  of  M.  D.  conferred  by  a  medical  college,  not  equivalent 

to    31 

requisite  as  a  qualification  of  medical  esLaminers  appointed 

by  the  regents    S 

autnorizes  admission  to  regents*  medical  examinations 9 

Literary  exchatiges.  (See  Exchanges.) 

Literature  fund,  income  of,  to  be  apportioned  in  part  on  results  of 

advanced  examinations 40 

pre-requisiteS  as  to  building,  library  and  apparatus 41,     43 

certain  incorporated  schools,  not  strictly  aca'demies,  may  be 

admitted  to  tiie  distribution  of 41,    43 

academies  receiving  seven  hundred  or  more  dollars  from, 

required  to  establish  department  for  Instruction  of  common 

schoolteachers 43 

schedule  of  distribution  of,  to  be  delivered  to  the  comptroller.    43 
schedule   of  apportionment    for   purchase    of    books    and 

apparatus  to  be  so  delivered 137 

comptroller  to  draw  warrant  on  treasurer  In  favor  of  each 

academy  partitiinating  in  the  distribution  of 43 

regents  authorized  to  grant  relief  la  cases  of  erroneous  distri- 
bution of 44 

all  suras  apportioned  from,  to  be  applied  to  the  payment  of 

teachers'  salaries 43 

distribution  of,  when  to  be  made 135 

moneys  apportioned  from,  how  drawn 135,  136 

form  of  draft  for .13.'),  136 

distributive  share  from,  not  to  be  paid  to  the  principal  of 

an  academy  whife  the  salaries  of  subordinate  teachers  are 

In  arrears ..  145 

special  appropriation  from  Income  of ,  for  purchase  of  books 

and  apparatus 43 

no  academy  to  receive  more  than  $150  for  books,  etc.,  in  any 

one  year 43,  187 

conditions  on  which'money  is  granted  for  books,  etc. 136,  139,  140 
regents  to  report  tlie  annual  distribution  of,  to  the  legislature.    44 
Literature  and  U.  S.  deposit  funds,  laws  relative  to  distribution 

of  income  of 40-43 

ordinances  relative  to 180'142 

apportioned  among  academies  in  proportion  to  number  of 

pui)il3  pursuing  requisite  studies 40 

requisite  studies  enumerated 41 

Manuscripts,  laws  relative  to  the  caro  of  certain  public 100-102 

legislative  papers  on  file  more  than  five  years  to  be  placed  in 
charge  of  the  regents  of  tlje  university 100 

not  applicable  to  papers  in  oflice  of  secretary  of  state  100 

trustees  of  capitol  to  provide  suitable  rooms  for 100 

!  regents  to  have  sole  charge  of. 100,  101 

not  to  bo  removed  without  resolution  of  the  senate  and 

assembly 101 

required  to  be  duly  classified  and  arranged ..  101 

certifled  copies  of,  may  be  furnished ...101,  103 

may  be  used  as  evidence 1^ 

duty  or  joint  library  committee  of  legislature  in  regard  to...   103 
list  of  papers  removed  from  regents*  flies  and  not  duly  re- 
turned to  be  reported  to  legislature,  at  opening  of  session.  103 


INDEX.  227 


Page. 

Maps,  recommended  for  academy  libraries 143 

globes,  etc,  appropriations  for  the  purchase  of,  for  the  benefit 

of  academies 43 

Master  of  Arts,  degrees  above  that  of,  authorized  to  be  con- 
ferred by  regents  of  university. .  .. .      5 

Medical  colleges,  incorporated  by  the  regents,  how li,    18 

charters  of,  may  be  vacated  and  annulled  by  the  regents,  if 

funds  are  not  seasonably  invested 19 

trustees  of,  to  be  not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  twenty- 
four 19,20 

authorized  to  make  all  needful  by-laws  and  rules.  20 

required  to  instruct  a  limited  number  of  indigent  scholars 

free  of  charge 29,21 

Medical  departments  of  colleges  not  to  be  established  in  places 

other  than  where  the  charter  locates  the  college 31 

Medical  examinations.   (See  Examinations  and   Examiners   in 

Medicine.) 
Medical  institutions,  academical  departments  of,  not  entitled  to 

share  in  distribution  of  literature  tund 43 

Medical  Society  of  the  State  of  New  York,  medical   examiners 

appointed  on  recommendation  of 147 

honorary  degree  of  M.  D.  conferred   on   recommendation 

of 177-181 

(See  Colleges.) 
Medical  Society  of  the  State  of  New  York,  and  Homoeopathic 
Medical    Society,     authorized    to   recommend     persons     for 

honorary  degree  of  M.  D 6 

Meetings  of  the  regents  of  the  university,  annual  and  others,    - 

when  and  where  to  be  held,  how  appointed,  etc 3,      4 

Meetings  of  trustees  of  academics,  when,  where  and  on  what 

notice  to  be  held    33 

of  trustees  of  colleges,  do 29 

Membership  of  university  convocation,  how  constituted 183 

Messenger,  of  state  library   to  be  appointed  by  trustees 48 

Minutes,  court  of  appeals',  rough,  cited 92 

regents,  cited 92 

Monuments  on  state  boundary  lines,  laws  relative  to 10-12 

Museum,  agricultural,  hall  for,  placed  under  joint  care  of  regents 

and  executive  committee  of  State  Agricultural  Society 54 

Natural  history  of  New  York,  laws,  etc.,  relative  to  preparation 

and  publication  of G7-01 

governor  authorized  to  cause  complete  geological  survey  to  be 

made,  with  mans,  descriptions,  etc 07-70,  76,     77 

also,  to  provide  by  contract  for  the  publication  thereof. 

69,  70,    77 

botanical  and  zoological  productions  to  be  included . .  07 

agri(;ultural  and  palaaontology  to  be  included  76 

building  for  collections  illustrating,  to  be  provided 67,    68 

distribution  of  volumes  of,  how  to  be  made 6S-70 

colleges,  incorporated,  each  entitled  to  one  copy  of..  63,  69,  82,    84 

copj'right  of,  to  be  secured  for  the  benefit  of  the  state 69 

sale  of  copyright  authorized 75 

sale  of  volumes  of,  authorized ....69,  70,  73-73 

price  of  map  accompanying,  designated 73-75 

prices  per  volume,  designated 70,  73-75,  82,  84 

contracts  for  printing  and  binding .70-72,  83,     84 

contracts  for  engraving 77-79 


228  IN-DEX. 

Natural  history  of  New  York^ Continued.  Page, 

gratuitous  distribution  of  tlie  earlier  published  volumes  of, 

to  certain  parties  named  68,69,    75 

payment    subsequently    required,   as  condition    on    Which 

persons  may  complete  their  sets 75 

copies  of.  to  be  presented  to  certain  officials,  etc  ...72,  79,  80,     85 
li»t  of  officials,  etc.,  to  whom  copies  were  so  presented.  ...  88-91 
public    libraries    and     literary    associations,    incorporated, 
entitled    to    purcha'^e     copies    of,    at    one     dollar    per 

vokline 73,  80-S2,     84 

state  library,  entitled  to  three  copies  of ..flS,    U9 

secretary  of  regents,   with    secretary  of  state,  to  supervise 
geological    survey,    and   completion    of    natural   history, 

etc  77,81,    82 

contract  signed  by 82,     83 

secretary  of  state,    powers  and  duties  of,  in  relation   to. 

68-70,  72,  73,  75-77,  79-82 

contract  signed  Ijy 83,    84 

governor,  powers  and  duties  of,  in  relation  to 67-70,   72-77 

contract  executed  l)y 77-79 

Bale   of,  to  incorporated  academies,  etc.,  atone  dollar  per 
volume,    within    certain    limits  as  to  time,    authorized. 

73,  74,  76,  80,  81,     84 

limited  to  one  set  for  each  corporation 74,    76 

author  of  volumes  of,  allowed  to  purchase  a  limited  number 

of  copies  of,  at  same  rate 84 

abridgment  or  epitome  of,  authorized  to  be  published 82,    83 

list  of  volumes  of 85,    87 

comi)letlon  of  sets  by  purchase,  authorized 74-70,  80-82 

county  treasurers,  copies  to  ba  transmitted  to,  for  sale 73 

\  returns  of  unsold  copies  to  be  made  by 81 

parties  holding' the  earlier  volumes  entitled  to  purchase 

flrstfr.un 75,    76 

booksellers,  provision  as  to  copies  unsold  by,  under  contract.    75 
supervision  of  compilation    and  completion  of,  vested    in 

secretary  of  state  and  secretary  of  regents 77,  81,    83 

secretary  of  state  and  secretary  of  regents,  to  examine  into 

and  report  upon  claims  and  contracts  concerning 77 

also  plans  and  estimates  for  completion  of  survey 77 

appropriations  for  expenses  and  deflciemries 81,    82 

literary  exchanges,  foreign,  copies  to  be  delivered  to  regents 

for 81.     82 

Natural  History,  state  museum  (cabinet)  of ,  laws  relative  to..  54-5S 

state  museum  of,  organized. 55 

(See  State  Museum.) 
New  Jersey  and  Pennsylvania,  regents  directed  to  take  action 

relative  to  monuments  on  boundary  lines  of .  10-13 

old  established  lines  to  be  recognized,  Irrespective  of  want 

of  conformity  to  verbal  descriptions  thereof II 

commissioners  to  be  appointed  and  their  action  to  be  reported 

by  the  regents  to  the  legislature 11,    13 

New  York   College  of  Dentistry,  may  confer  certain  degrees, 

with  consent  of  regents 5 

New  York  law  library,  establishment  of 95 

justices  of  flrst  judicial  district  to  be  trustees  of  95 

trustees  of  state  library,  may  place  duplicates  in ft) 

New  York  state  teachers'  a."*sociatloii,  certain  offlcersof,  ex  officio 

members  of  university  convocation 183 

Normal  ami  other   schools,   regents  authorized    to  distribute 
duplicate  natural  history  specimens  to  53 


IKDEX.  S29 


Page. 
Normal  school,  state  (at  Albany),  supervision  and  management 

of 45 

executive  committee  of,  how  constituted 45 

Notice  of  meetings  of  trustees  of  colleges  and  academies,  how 

given,  etc 29,    33 

of  application   for  amendment  of  charter,  to  be  printed  in 

the  state,  and  a  local  paper  for  six  weeks 109 

Officers,  of  board  of  regents,  designated . .      3 

how  appointed , ;      3 

of  colleges  and  academies,   disqualified  to  act  as  i-egents  of 

the  university 2 

Olfices,  vacant,  in  colleges  and  academies,  authorized  to  be  filled 

by  the  regents,  in  certain  cases C 

Ordinance  of  the  regents  of  the  university,  respecting  the  in- 
corporation of  colleges 103,  10  i 

Ordinances,  by-laws  and,  regents  authorized  to  make. 7 

of  the  regents  of  the  university 103-1S9 

etc.,  trustees  of  colleges  authorized  to  make 31 

trustees  of  academies  anthorized  to  make , 33 

Papers  and  records,  laws  relative  to  caro  of  certain  public  manu- 
scripts   100-102 

(See  Manuscripts.) 
Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey,  regents  directed  to  take  action 

relative  to  monuments  on  boundary  lines  of 10-12 

old  established  lines  to  be  recognized,  irrespective  of  want  of 

conformity  to  verbal  descriptions  thereof 11 

commissioners  to  be  appointed  and  their  action  to  be  reported 

by  the  regents  to  the  legislature 11,     12 

Physicians  and  surgeons,    trustees  of  college  of,  of  the  city  of 
New  York,  invested  with  certain  rights  formerly  reserved  to 

the  regents  of  the  University 5 

Physiology  and  laws  of  health,  etc.,  appropriations  to  academies 

for  instruction  in 46 

Powers  and  duties  of  trustees  of  colleges ,  29-31 

of  academies 31-35 

Lancasterian  and  select  schools 35-37 

colleges  and  academies 37 

Preparatory  scholars,  defined 130 

Presidents  of  colleges,  etc.,  disqualified,  to  act  as  regents  of  the 

university 2 

trustees  of  colleges  authorized  to  appoint,  and  to  remove  on 

due  cause  shown 30,     81 

no  religious  qualification  to  be  required  of 87 

not  entitled  to  a  vote  relating  to  his  own  salary,  etc 87 

Presiding  officer  of  board  of  regents,  designated 3 

Principals  of  academies,  disqualified  to  act  as  regents  of  the  uni- 
versity         2 

no  religious  qualification  to  be  required  of 87 

duties  of,  in  regard  to  teachers'  classes 167-174 

payment  from  literature  fund  not  to  be  made  to,  while  sal- 
aries of  assistant  teachers  are  in  arrears 145 


330  INDEX. 

Page, 
Professors,  etc.,  of  colleges,  trustees  authorized  to  appoint,  and 

to  remove  on  due  cause  shown 30,     81 

Property,    account  of,    to   be  included  in    annual   reports  of 

colleges  and  academies 39,  127,  160-162 

statement  of,  required  in  applications  for  incorporation  of 

colleges  and  academies 103,  107-113 

amount  of,   that  may  be  held  by  a  medical  college  incor- 
porated by  the  regents 18,     19 

by  an  institution  incorporated  under  the  general  law. . . .     27 
trustees  of  colleges  authorized  to  hold,  by  gift,   grant  or 

devise,  and  to  dispose  of  same 80 

of  academies  authorized  to  hold,   by  gift,  grant  or  devise, 

and  to  dispose  of  same 32 

of  Lancasterian  and  select  schools,  to  be  held  by  the  trustees 

subject  to  their  use  and  disposal 86 

Provisional  examination  in  academies,  repealed 131,  132 

Quorum,  of  board  of  regents,  designated 8 

Record,  of  preliminary  academic  examination,  to  be  kept  by  each 

academy 130,  131 

Records,    laws   relative   to   care  of   certain   public   manuscript 

papers  and 100-102 

to  be  kept  by  trustees  of  academies 144,  145 

duty  of  visiting  regents  to  examine  such  books  of  record.144,  147 
(See   Manuscripts.) 
Records  of  university,  reports  of  medical  examiners,  etc.,  to  be 

part  of 8,       9 

Reference,  books  of,  to  be  placed  in  academy  libraries 142,  148 

Regents  of  the  university  : 

laws  relative  to,  and  to  the  university 1-102 

organization  and  powers  of 1-14 

eX'officio  members  of  board  of,  designated 2 

number  of 2 

how  appointed  and  appointment  of,  how  rendered  void 2 

vacancies  in  the  board  of,  how  filled 2 

occasioned  by  non-attendance 4 

to  be  reported  to  the  lej^jislature 4 

disqualified  to  act  as  presidents,  principals  or  other  officers 

of  colleges  or  academies 2 

quorum  of 8 

officers  of,  designated  and  how  appointed 8 

annual  meeting  of,  when  and  where  held 8 

power  of,  to  adjourn  meetings 8 

meetings  of,  how  appointed,  and  when  and  where  held.. .  .3,  4 
allowed  access  to  all  Dooks  and  papers  of  the  corporation. ..  4 
duty  of  secretary  of,  to  keep  journal,  and  to  record  ayes  and 

noes,  if  requested 4 

duty  of  treasurer  of 4 

authorized  and  required  to  visit  and  inspect  all  colleges  and 
academies,  and  required  to  make  annual  report  of  state 
of  same,  to  the  legislature,  within  ten  days  of  opening  of 
session 4,      6 


INDEX.  231 

Regents  of  the  university — ConUmied,  Page. 

certain  rights  originallj  reserved  to,  transferred  to  trustees 
of  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  city  of  New 
York 5 

authorized  to  fill  certain  offices  in  colleges  and  academies 
when  vacant 6 

prohibited  from  applying  specific  grants  to  other  uses  than 
those  intended 7 

authorized  to  allow  accumulation  of  trust  funds  for  sup- 
port of  teachers 7 

authorized  to  make  by-laws  and  ordinances 7 

authorized  to  send  for  persons  and  papers 7,       8 

boards  of  examiners  in  medicine  to  be  appointed  by 8 

action  of,  relative  to  medical  examinations  to  be  preserved . .  8,       9 

diploma,  conferring  degree  of  M.  D.  of  university  of  state 
of  New  York,  to  be  issued  by,  to  successful  candidates  in 
medical  examinations 9 

authorized  to  establish  rules  and  regulations  for  medical 
examinations 10 

directed  to  take  action  relative  to  monuments  on  state 
boundary  lines 10-12 

to  report  to  legislature  on  progress  of  work  of  ascertaining 
location  of  lines  and  renewing  and  replacing  monuments.  10,     12 

authorized  to  appoint  three  of  their  number  commissioners 
to  co-operate  with  New  Jersey  and  Pennsylvania  commis- 
sioners, as  to  boundary  lines  and  monuments 11,    12 

directed  to  report  action  of  commissioners  to  legislature.. . .     12 

appropriation,  annual,  to,  for  establishing  and  conducting 
examinations  as  to  attainments  m  learning 12,     13 

directed  to  establish  examinations  in  academies,  and  to  con- 
fer suitable  testimonials 13 

authorized  to  establish  examinations  as  to  attainments  in 
learning  of  any  persons  applying  for  admission  to  the  same, 
and  to  award  suitable  degrees  or  testimonials  to  successful 
candidates 13 

directed  to  provide  for  admission  of  any  (qualified  scholar  from 
a  common  school  to  the  regents'  preliminary  examination, 
on  certificate  of  principal  teacher  or  trustee ....     14 

authorized  and  required  to  incorporate  literary  colleges  on 
certain  conditions 15 

power  of,  to  incorporate  colleges,  etc.,  under  act  of  1853. ...     17 

authorized  to  prescribe  requisites  and  conditions  for  the  in- 
corporation by  them  of  colleges,  etc 16 

authorized  and  required  to  incorporate  academies  on  due  ap- 
plication       16 

certificate  made  by  persons  desirous  to  found  a  medical  col- 
lege, to  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of 17 

authorized  and  required  to  incorporate  medical  colleges,  on 
certain  specified  conditions 18 

authorized  to  vacate  and  annul  charters  of  medical  colleges 
when  funds  are  not  duly  invested 19 


233  IITDEX. 

Regents  of  the  university — Continued.  Page. 

required  to  incorporate  stock  iustitutions  for  literary,  etc., 
purposes,  on  certain  conditions 21,     22 

authorized  to  alter,  amend  or  repeal  charters  of  institutions 
incorporated  by  them,  and  of  all  others,  subject  to  their 
visitation,  on  petition  of  the  trustees  thereof 22 

charters  granted  by,  with  applications  for  the  same,  to  be 
recorded  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of 22 

charters,  etc.,  recorded  in  office  of  secretary  of  state,  to  be 
also  recorded  in  office  of  secretary  of 23 

certified  copies  of  records,  etc.,  in  custody  of,  may  be  used 
in  evidence '. .  14,  23,     51 

academical  departments  of  union  free  schools  subject  to  vis- 
itation of 24 

authorized  to  incorporate  Lancasterian  schools 26 

Lancastenan  schools,  subject  to  control  and  visitation  of . . . .     27 

authorized  to  require  reports  f  re  m  Lancasterian  schools 27 

apportionment  of  $40,000  from  income  of  literature  and  U. 
S.  deposit  funds,  for  the  benefit  of  academies,  to  be  annually 
made  by 40 

authorized  to  apportion  income  of  literature  fund  in  part  on 
results  of  advanced  academic  examinations 40 

to  be  satisfied  in  regard  to  requisite  value  of  academy  build- 
ings, libraries,  etc.,  as  conditional  to  distribution  of  litera- 
ture fund 41 

may  admit  certain  incorporated  schools,  not  strictly  acade- 
mies, to  the  distribution 41,     42 

duty  of,  to  require  academies  receiving  $700  or  more  from 
literature  fund,  to  establish  a  department  for  instruction  of 
common  school  teachers 42 

required  to  deliver  authenticated  schedule  of  distribution  of 
literature  fund,  to  the  Comptroller 42 

annual  appropriation  to,  for  the  purchase  of  books  and  ap- 
paratus, for  the  benefit  of  academies ....     43 

authorized  to  give  relief  to  academies  in  regard  to  erroneous 
distribution  of  literature  fund,  etc 44 

required  to  report  annual  distribution  of  literature  fund  to 
the  legislature  within  ten  days  after  opening  of  session. . .     44 

supervision  of  state  normal  school  intrusted  to,  jointly 
with  the  state  superintendent  of  public  instruction 45 

with  superintendent  of  publio  instruction,  required  to  make 
an  annual  report  to  the  legislature,  on  the  condition  of  the 
state  normal  school  (at  Albany^ 46 

authorized  to  prescribe  course  or  study  for  teachers'  classes 
in  academies 46 

authorized  to  appoint  a  teacher  or  teachers  to  give  instruc- 
tion in  physiology,  etc.,  in  academies 46 

directed  to  ilesignate,  with  due  reference  to  location,  etc., 
academies  and  union  schools  in  which  instruction  of  com- 
mon school  teachers  shall  bo  given 46 

directed  to  prescribe  conditions  of  admission  to  teachers' 
classes,  etc 4C,    47 


IXDEX.  233 


Regents  of  the  university — Continued.  Page, 

to  be  satisfied  as  to  thorough  instruction  of  teachers'  classes 

in  academies 47 

constituted  trustees  of  the  state  library 48 

authorized,  as  such  trustees,  to  appoint  and  direct  librarians, 

prescribe  rules,  sell  or  exchange  duplicates,  loan  books  to 

state  officers,  etc 48-53 

directed  to  provide  for  safe  keeping  of  cabinets  of  natural 

history,   and  to  employ  a  person  to   take  charge  of  the 

same 54 

hall  for  state  cabinet,  etc.,  placed  under  the  joint  care  of, 

and  executive  committee  of  state  agricultural  society 54 

state  museum  declared  to  be  under  sole  charge  of 54 

expenditures  for  state  museum  of  natural  history   to   be 

approved  by 5G 

state  museum  of  natural  history  organized  under  the  care  and 

custody  of,in  accordance  with  plan  recommended  by 55 

authorized  to  distribute  duplicate  natural  history  specimens 

to  certain  institutions 56-58 

publication  of  documents  relating  to  colonial  history  to  be 

completed  under  direction  of 62 

vested  with  discretionary  power  as  to  subject-matter  of  re- 
maining volumes  of  colonial  history 62 

copies  of  colonial  history  to  be  placed  in  custody  of,  for  sale 

by,  and  for  future  distribution  by  the  legislature 62 

for  literary  exchanges 62-65 

proceeds  of  sales  by,  to  be  paid  into  the  state  treasury. .  63 
directed  to  embody  index  of  colonial  history  in  separate  vol- 

ume,  and  to  distribute  it  in  same  manner  as  other  volumes.  65 
directed  ii  distribute  colonial  history  and  index  to  legislature 

of  1859  andl860 .' 65,     66 

directed  to  cause  damaged  volumes  of  colonial  history  to  be 

rebound 66 

copies  of  natural  history  of  New  York  to  be  delivered  to, 

for  foreign  literary  exchanges 81,     82 

minutes  of,  cited. 1)2 

librarians  of  court  of  appeals'  libraries  at  Rochester  and  Syr- 
acuse to  be  appointed  by 93 

authorized  to  frame  rules  "for  these  libraries. 94,     95 

trustees  of  certain  judicial  district  libraries  required  to  report 

to 95-98 

intrusted  with  sole  care  of  legislative  papers  on  file  more 

than  five  years 100 

required  to  cause  all  such  papers  to  be  duly  classified  and 

arranged 101 

authorized  to  furnish  certified  copies  of  such  papers 101 

required  to  report  to  the  legislature  annually  in  regard  to 

papers  removed  from  files  and  not  returned 102 

ordinances  of 103-189 

respecting  the  incorporation  of  colleges,  etc 103-125 

apportionment  from  literature  fund  to  be  made  by,  at  the 

annual  meeting 135 


234  INDEX. 


Regents  of  the  university — Continued.  Page, 

duty  of,  to  ascertain  whether  suitable  books  of  record  are 

kept  by  academies 144,  145 

conditions  prescribed  bv,  in  regard  to  honorary  degrees....  175 
executive  committee  of  the  university    convocation  to  be 

appointed  by 184 

two  general  business  sessions  to  be  held  by,  annually 189 

standing    committees  of,  to  meet   on    morning  of  day    of 

annuiu  meeting 189 

as  appointed  by  act  of  May  1,  1784 190,  191 

of  November  26,  1784 192 

underact  of  April  13,  1787 193-200 

alphabetical  list  of,  from  1784-1881 201-209 

ex-officio,  under  act  of  May  1,  1784 190,  191 

under  act  of  April  13,  1787 : . .  .193-196 

officers  of,  1784-1881 209-211 

under  act  of  May  1,  1784 192 

full  list  of 209,  210 

officers  and  members  of  the  board,  in  1881 211 

Registers  of  attendance,  etc.,  to  bo  kept  by  academies 144,  145 

Religious  qualification,  none  to  be  required  of  any   officer  or 

member  of  any  incorporated  institution 37 

Relief  to  academies,  regents  authorized  to  grantin  certain  cases..     44 
Removal  from  office,  power  of,  vested  in  trustees  of  colleges, 

etc.,  in  certain  cases,  on  due  cause  shown 30-33 

Report,   annual,  to  be  made  by  the  regents  of  the  university  to 

the  legislature,  within  ten  days  after  opening  of  session.4,  5,     44 
of  the  state  normal  school  (at  Albany)  to  be  made  to  the 

legislature 46 

Reports,  to  be  made  by  incorporated   Lancasterian   and  select 

schools,  when  required  by  the  regents 87 

of  committees  on  preliminary  academic  examinations,  to  be 

made  within  one  month..... 131 

Reports,  annual,  of  academies,  to  contain  estimated  value   of 

library,  apparatus,  etc 39,  127 

names  and  compensation  of  instructors 39,  123 

financial  statements 39,  12^,    127 

date  of   termination  of  academic  year  as  declared  by   the 

trustees  on  their  minutes 88,     89,  127 

number,  names,  etc.,  of  all  the  punils 39,  128,  129 

a  statement  of  the  studies  pursuea  by  each  pupil.... 39,  128,  129 

what  in  general 39,  126-129 

to  be  transmitted  to  secretary  of  regents  on  or  before  the 

first  of  October,  in  each  vear 33,  89,  127 

to  be   attested  by    oath  or  principal    instructor,  or  of  a 

trustee 89,  1 29 

form  of 161-163 

on  instruction  of  teachers'  classes  in  academies 172-174 

Reports,  annual,  of  colleges,  etc.,  subject  to  visitation,  laws  rel- 
ative to 88,     89 

to  be  made  from  time  to  time  as  regents  may  require 33 


IJ^-DEX.  235 

Reports,  annual,  of  colleges,  etc  —Continue  I.  Page, 

to  be  transmitted  to  secretary  of  regent  s  on  or  before  October  1.    38 

forms  of,  to  be  prescribed  by  the  regents 38 

may  be  directed  to  be  printed  by  state  printer 38 

prescribed  forms  of 158-161 

Requisites   for  degree  of  doctor  of  modicine,  when   conferred 

by  trustee3  of  medical  colleges  incorporated  by  the  regents. ....     20 
Resignation,  non-attendance  of  regents  during  the  session  of  the 

legislature  without  just  cause  to  l>e  deemed  as 4 

Resolutions,  concurrent,  in  regard  to  state  library 51-53 

setting  apart  rooms  in  state  hall  for  use  of  state  museum. ...     54 
authorizing  regents  to  distribute  duplicate  natural   history 

specimens  to  normal  and  other  schools 58 

as  to  gratuitous  distribution  of  volumes  of  geological  survey.     68 
providing  copies  of  natural    history  for   foreign    literary 

exchanges , 81,82 

Resolutions,  regents',  as  to  annual  and  semi-annual  sessions 189 

as  to  attendance  of  standing  committees 189 

as  to  annual  reports  of  academies  in  which  instruction  has 

been  suspended 189 

as  to  honorary  degrees 175 

as  to  catalogues  of  colleges,  etc 187 

Resolutions,  university  convocation,  in  regard  to  organization, 

etc 182-184 

Rochester,  court  of  appeals'  library  founded  at 92 

considered  as  law  library  of  seventh  judicial  district 97 

Rules  and  regulations,  regents  authorized  to  establish,  and  as  es- 
tablished, for  medical  examinations 10,  147-151 

for  examinations  as  to  attainments  in  learning 13 

for  examinations  in  academies,  etc 13 

for  incorporations 16,  105-125 

for  state  normal  school 45 

for  instruction   of    common  school  teachers   in  academies 

46,  47,  164-174 

for  state  library 48,     52 

for  court  of  appeals'  libraries 94,  95,  98,     99 

Salaries,  of  officers  of  colleges  and  academies,  appointed  by  the 

regents,  authorized  to  be  fixed  by  them  in  certain  cases.. 6,       7 

of  college  officers,  to  be  fixed  by  trustees  31 

of  officers  of  academies  to  be  fixed  by  the  trustees 32 

all    moneys    apportioned   from   the  literature    fund   to    be 

applied  to  the  payment  of  teachers' 43 

duty  of  trustees  of  academies  in  regard  to  payment  of 145 

of  li'brarians  of  court  of  appeals' libraries,  provision  for.  .93,     94 

Sallust,  as  a  requisite  for  classical  scholarship  in  academies 132 

*^cheduleof  distribution  of  literature  fund,  to  be  duly  authenti- 
cated and  filed  with  the  comptroller 42 

Schenectady,  law  library  of  fourth  judicial  district  at 96 

under  care  of  justices  of  fourth  judicial  district  as  trustees.     96 
trustees  of,    to  make  annual  reports  to  the  regents  of  the 

university 96 

trustees  of  state  library  authorized  to  place  duplicates  in. . . .     96 


236  INDEX. 

Page. 

Scholars,  classification  of,  in  academies,  etc 130,  151-154 

common   school,    eligible   to   admission  to  regents'  prelimi- 
nary examination,  on  certificate  of  principal  teacher   or 

trustee 14 

School  commissioners,    to   be   notified  of  the  organization   of 
teachers'    classes    in    academies,    and   invited   to    make 

frequent  visits .   167,  171 

occurrence  of  such  visits  to  be  reported  to  regents 174 

School,  state  normal  (at  Albany),  supervision  and  raanagemant 

of 45 

annual  report  of,  law  concerning ....     46 

Schools,   normal  and  other,   regents   authorized  to   distribute 

natural  history  specimens  to 53 

Seal,  a  common,  authorized  to  be  made  and  used  by  the  regents 

of  the  university 1 

regents  of  the  university  authorized  to  confer  certain  degrees 

by  diploma,  under  their  common 5 

corporate,  of  an  academy,  to  be  used  on  drafts  for  moneys 

apportioned,  by  regents,  if  there  be  one 186 

Secretary  of  board  of  regents,  office  of,  created 3 

acting  as  treasurer,  for  many  years 3 

duty  of,  to  keep  journal  of  proceedings  and  to  record  ayes 

and  noes,  if  requested 4 

charters  granted  by  said  board,  with  applications  for  same, 

to  be  recorded  in  the  office  of 22 

charters,  etc.,  to  be  recorded  in  office  of  the  secretary  of 

state,  to  be  also  recorded  in  office  of  regents 23 

annual  reports  of  colleges  and  academies  to  be  transmitted 

to,  on  or  before  October  first 33 

duties  of,  in  relation  to  medical  examinations 150,   151 

at  the  present  time 210,  211 

assistant 3,  210-211 

Secretaries  of  the  board  of  regents,  list  of 210 

Select  schools,  trustees  of,  declared  to  be  corporations     35 

powers  of  trustees  of 85,     86 

incorporated,  may  be  made  district  schools 36,     87 

subject  to  visitation  of  regents,  when  incorporated 37 

Seniority  of  trustees  of  colleges  and   academies,    how  deter- 
mined   29,     33 

State  cabinet  of  natural  histor3\     (See  State  Museum.) 

State  library,  laws  relative  to  care  of 48-53 

regents  of  the  university  anpointed  trustees  of 48 

librarians  and  messenger,  how  appointed 48 

when  to  be  kept  open 48 

duties  of  librarian ^ 49 

trustees  to  give  directions  to  librarian 49 

salary  of  librarian  may  be  suspended  or  deducted  from,  for 

violation  or  neglect  of  duty 49 

duplicates,  etc.,  may  be  sold  or  exchanged 49 

annual  report  to  bemado  to  the  legislature  concerning..  49,     50 
to  be  closed  fifteen  days  in  each  year  for  cleaning,  etc.48,  49,    63 


liTDEX.  237 


state  library — Continued.  Page, 

catalogue  of  books,  etc.,  added  each  year,  to  be  reported  to 

the  legislature 49,  50 

full  catalogue  of,  to  be  reported  to  the  legislature  at  the  end 

of  every  five  years 50 

members    of    the    legislature    allowed  to   take    books   and 

required  to  return  them 50 

heads  of  state  departments,   and  trustees   of  the  library, 

allowed  to  take  books  from 51 

judges  of  the  court  of  appeals  and  justices  of  the  supreme 

court  allowed  to  take  books  from 51 

copies  of  court  of  appeals'  reports  to  be  deposited  in 51 

trustees  of,  may  make  rules  for,  and  may  limit  its    use  to 

certain  persons,  whenever  necessary 51,  52 

copies  of  books,  manuscripts,  etc.,  duly  certified,  may  be 

used  in  evidence 51 

meetings  of  library  committee  of  regents,  when  to  be  held. . .  183 
copies  of  all  extra  legislative  documents  to  be  furnished  to, 

by  the  state  printer 52 

entitled  to  three  copies  of  natural  history  of  New  York..  68,  69 
regents  of  the  university  authorized  to  take  books  for,  from 

the  "chancellor's  library  " 92 

trustees  of,  authorized  to  place  duplicates  in  certain  judicial 

district  libraries 95-97 

located  within  the  third  judicial  district 96 

law  department  of,  established  for  use  of  officers  of  govern- 
ment, and  use  to  be  limited  to  them  whenever  necessary.  51,  52 
trustees,  duty  of,  to  limit  use  of  law  department  to  officers 

of  government  whenever  necessary 51,  52 

librarian  of,  instructed  to  enforce  concurrent  resolution  of 

April  16,  1861 187 

not  to  be  used  by  law  students  as  a  study  room,  etc 187 

general  library,  use  of,  likewise  restricted 187 

State  museum,  lavvs  relative  to m 54-58 

building  for,  to  be  in  charge  of  certain  officers 54,  67,  68 

trustees  of,  authorized  to  occupy  vacated  rooms  in  state  hall 

for  purposes  of 54 

to  be  under  sole  charge  of  regents 54 

state  cabinet  of  natural  history,  reorganized  as,  in  accordance 

with  plan  recommended  by  the  regents 55 

curator  of  state  cabinet  appointed  director  of,  with  special 

duties 55-58 

free  scientific  lectures  to  be  established  in  connection  with..  55 

salaries  of  officers  in,  provided  for 55 

botanical  department  in,  continued  for  three  years 55 

appointment  of    assistants  to   be   made  by   director,    with 

concurrence  of  regents 55,  56 

annual  appropriation  for  expenses  of 56 

expenditures  for,  directions  as  to 54,  56 

duplicates  in,  sets  of,  to  be  presented  to  Cornell  library..  56,  57 

to  Cornell  university 67 


238  INDEX. 


State  museum,  duplicates  in,  etc. — Continued.  Page. 

to  American  museum  of  natural  history 57,     53 

Syracuse  university 58 

normal  and  other  schools 58 

State  normal  school  (at  Alhany ),  supervision  and  management  of,     45 

executive  committee  of,  how  constituted,  etc 45 

diploma  from,  as  evidence  of  qualification  to  teach 46 

State  paper,  notice  of  called  mcetmgs  of  the  board  of  regents  to 

be  published  in 4 

notices  of  application  for  amendments  of  charters,  etc.,  to 

be  published  in,  and  in  a  local  paper 109 

distribution  of  literature  fund,  published  in 135 

State  printer,  forms  of  reports  to  be  made  to  the  regents,  may  be 

printed  by 88 

required,  by  concurrent  resolution,  to  furnish  copies  of  all 

extra  documents,  for  the  state  library ' 52 

Stock  corporations,  for  literary,  scientific,  charitable  or  religious 

purposes,  how  formed 21. 

conditions  of  incorporation  of,  by  the  regents 21,     22 

academic,  special  powers  of  trustees  of,  as  to  elections,  etc.. 34,     35 
Stockholders,    in    corporations    for    literary,    etc.,    purposes, 

authorized  to  cast  one  vote  for  each  share  of  stock 21 

in  any  institution  of  learning,  not  entitled  to  dividends  while 

there  is  any  outstanding  indebtedness 22 

Studies,  requisite  to  entitle  academies  to  participate  in  distribution 

of  literature  fund 40,     41 

Superintendent  of  public  instruction,  supervision  of  state  normal 
school   intrusted  to,    jointly    with  the    regents    of   the 

university 45 

and  regents  of  the  university,  required  to  make  an  annual 
report  to  the  legislature  on  the  condition  of  the  state  normal 

scnool  (at  Albany) 48 

Supervisprs  of  Broome  county,  churjjcd  jointly  with  justices  of 

fourth  judicjiil  district,  with  care  of  law  library  of  said  district.     97 
Supreme  court,  justices  of,  entitled  to  take  books  from  the  state 

library 51 

Surveying  instruments,  recommended  as  academic  apparatus. . . .  143 

Syracuse,  court  of  appeals'  library  founded  at 92 

considerea  as  law  librarv  of  faf th  judicial  district 97 

Syracuse    university,    duplicate    fossils    and    minerals  to   be 

presented  to 53 

Teachers,  academy,  all  moneys  apportioned  from  the  literature 

fund  to  be  applied  to  payment  of  salaries  of 43 

election  of,  etc.,  to  be  recorded 14-4 

ordinance  in  regard  to  employment  of,  by  the  trustees,  etc..  145 

duty  of  trustees  as  to  puymcnt  of  salaries  of  assistant 145 

Teachers,  common  school,  academies  receiving  $700  or  more  from 
literature  fund,   to  establish  and  maintain  a  department  for 

the  instruction  of 42 

Teachers,  persons  holding  state  normal  school  diploma,  to  bo 

deemed  qualified 46 


IN^DEX.  239 

Page. 
Teachers,  common  school,  provision  made  by  the  state  for  the 
instrnction  of,  in  academies,  under  the  direction  of  the 

regents 45-47 

limit  as  to  allowance  for  instruction  of 46,  47,  165 

appointments  to  instruct  classes  of,  when    and  how   made. 

46,  164,  165 
appointments  to  be  apportioned  as  nearly  as  may  be  among 

the  different  counties 46,   166 

conditions   of   membership  in   classes  for   instruction    of. 

46,  47,  167,  168,   170 
instructions,  etc.,  relative  to  classes  of,  in  academies. . .  .164-174 

form  of  application  for  appointment  to  instruct 164,   165 

form  of  pledge  to  be  given  by  members  of  classes 168 

subjects  of  study  and  methods  of  instruction  for,  prescribed. 

168-170 

examination,  final,  of  teachers'  classes 170,  171 

school  commissioners  to  be  invited  to  co-operate  in  organiza- 
tion and  supervision  of  classes 167,  171 

secretary  of  regents  to  be  notified  of  organization  of  classes 

for  instruction  of 171 

instructions  to  be  consulted   and   observed  by  trustees   and 

principals 172 

form  of  report  on  instruction  of 172-174 

Teachers'  Association,  N.  Y.  State,   certain  oflBcers  of,  e,r-qfficio 

members  of  the  university  convocation 183 

Text-book,  use  of  this  term,  in  ordinance  of  regents,  defined...    183 
Theological  institutions,  academic  departments  of,  not  entitled  to 

share  in  distribution  of  literature  fund 41,     42 

Title  to  academic   property,    evidence  of,  to  be  submitted  to  a 
counselor  in   the  supreme  court,    and   validity  of   same  to  be 

certified  by  him 108,    109 

Treasurer,  of  regents,  office  of,  constituted 3 

secretary,  acting  as,  for  many  years 3 

duty  of 4 

appointment  of  first 192 

Treasurer,  state,  apportionment  to  academies  to  be  paid  by,   on 

warrant  of  comptroller 43,  46,  135 

form  of  draft  on,    for   amounts   apportioned   to    academies 

from  literature  fund 135,  136 

for  purchase  of  books  and  apparatus 142 

instruction  of  common  school  teachers  (none  given).. 
Treasurers,    of    academies,    form    of    draft    by,    for    amounts 

apportioned  from  literature  fund 135,  136 

for  purchase  of  books  and  apparatus 142 

Trust  funds,  for  the  benefit  of  colleges,  etc.,  income  of,  maybe 

permitted  to  accumulate  ,  within  certain  limits 7 

Trustees  of  academies,    disqualified  to   act  as  regents   of    the 

university , 2 

etc.,  corporate  property  to  vest  in 16 

declared  to  be  corporations 31 

number  of C 31 


240  INDEX. 

Trustees  of  academies — Continued.  Page. 

quorum  of 31,  32 

powers  of 31,  32 

to  adjourn  from  time  to  time 32 

elect  a  president 32 

fill  vacancies 32 

hold  property  by  gift,  grant  or  devise,  and  to  dispose 

thereof 32 

prescribe  the  course  of  study  and  discipline 32 

appoint  teachers  and  other  officers 32 

fix  the  salaries  of  all  officers 32 

remove  officers  employed  under  special  contract,    on 

due  cause  shown 32,  33 

make  necessary  ordinances  and  by-laws 33 

declare  the  office  of  non-attending  members  vacant. .  34 

duties  of 33-35,  38,  30,  47,  145,  167,  168,  172 

meetings  of,   when  and  where  to  be  held,   and  on  what 

notice 33 

non-attendance  for  one  year  to  be  deemed  a  resignation 34 

number  of,  when  exceeding  twelve  may  be  reduced  to  twelve 

by  abolishing  the  office  of  non-attending  members 34 

when  more  than  twelve  in  number,  offices  vacant  more  than 

six  months  to  be  abolished 84 

authorized  to  consent  to  adoption  of  academy  as  academical 
department  of  a  union  free  school,  and  to  declare  their 

offices  vacant 24 

special  powers  of,  in  stock  corporations 34,  35 

mode  ot  election  of,  in  stock  corporations 21,  35 

professors  and  tutors  disqualified  to  be , 87 

required  to  declare  the  termination  of  the  academic  year  on 

their  minutes 88,  39 

to    furnish   satisfactory  evidence  to  the  regents,   that 

teachers'  classes  have  been  thoroughly  instructed  . .  47 
furnish  to  the  comptroller  certificates  that  members  of 
teachers'  classes  intend  to  follow  the  business  of 

teaching 47 

reserve  and  exercise  the  right  of  employing  all  the 

teachers 145 

perform    certain    duties    in    regard    to    payment    of 

teachers'  salaries 145 

report  whether  the  rights  of  subordinate  teachers  in 

regard  to  salaries  have  been  protected 145 

jointly  with  principal  to  select  pupils  for  teachers'  classes, 

etc. 167.  168,  172 

Trustees  of  colleges,  disqualified  to  serve   as  regents  of  the 

university 2 

number  prescribed 15 

Sowers  and  duties  of 29-81 

eclared  to  be  corporations 29 

meetings  of,  when  and  on  what  notice  to  be  held 29 

seniority  among,  how  determined 29 

number  and  quorum  of 29 


IJS^DEX.  241 


Trustees  of  colleges — Continued.  Page. 

powers  of 29,  80 

to  elect  a  chairman. , 30 

fill  vacancies. 80 

declare  seats  vacant  on  account  of  absence 30 

hold  property,  by  gift,  grant  or  devise 30 

dispose  of  property  received  by  gift,  grant  or  devise. .  30 

prescribe  course  of  study  and  discipline 80 

appoint  a  president,  professors  and  other  officers 80 

remove  the  president  and  other  officers  on  due  proof 

of  misbehavior,  etc 30,  31 

grant  literary  honors 31 

fix  salaries  of  faculty  and  other  officers 31 

make  ordinances  and  by-laws 31 

duties  of,  under  ordinance  respecting  incorporations 104 

when  also  presidents,  professors  or  tutors,  not  allowed  to 

vote  iu  regard  to  their  own  salaries,  etc 37 

Trustees  of  colleges  and  academies,  disqualified  to  act  as  regents 

of  thu  university 2 

powers  and  duties  of 37 

no  religious  qualification  to  be  required  of 37 

when  also  presidents  or  principals,  not  allowed  to  vote  in 

regard  to  their  own  salaries,  etc 37 

Trustees  of  medical  colleges,  incorporated  by  the  regents,  to  be 

not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  twenty -four 19,  20 

authorized  to  make  all  needful  by-laws  and  rules 20 

authorized  to  confer  the  degree  of  doctor  of  medicine,  on 

certain  conditions 20 

required  to  instruct  a  limited  number  of  indigent  scholars, 

free  ot  charge 20,  21 

Trustees  of  college  of  physicians  and  surgeons  of  city  of  New  York, 
invested  with  certain  rights  previously  reserved  to  the 

regents  of  the  university 5 

Trustees  of  stock  corporations  for  literary,  etc.,  purposes,  how 

elected 21,  35 

Trustees,  of  Lancasteriaa  and  select  schools,  how  incorporated. .  26 

Property  to  vest  in 26 

eclared  corporations 85 

powers  of 35,  Z& 

to  elect  officers 35 

fill  vacancies 35 

appoint  teachers,  etc 86 

remove  teachers^  etc 86 

fix  salaries 36 

appoint  times  and  places  of  meetings- 86 

hold  and.dispose  of  property 36 

make  necessary  ordinances  and  by-laws 86 

declare  office  of  non-attending  members  vacant 36 

of  common  school  districts,  authorized  to  agree  with  trustees 
of  any  incorporated  Lancasterian  or  select  school,  to  make 

the  same  a  district  school 36 


242  INDEX. 


Page. 
Trustees  of  law  libraries  of  certain  judicial  districts,  required  to 

make  annual  reports  to  the  regents  of  the  university 95-1)8 

Trustees  of  state  library,  certified  copies  of  records,  etc.,  in  cus- 
tody of,  may  be  used  in  evidence 23,     51 

regents  of  the  university  constituted 48 

quorum  of,  for  appointmg  or  removing  librarian 48 

authorized  to  appoint  librarians  and  messenger 48 

to  appoint  the  hours  of  the  day,  during  which  the  library 

is  to  be  kept  open 48 

give  directions  to  the  librarian  in  regard  to  care  of 
books,  and  to  suspend  or  deduct  from  his  salary,  for 

violation  or  neglect  of  duty 49 

close  the  library    fifteen    days,    in    each    year,    for 

cleaning,  etc 48,  49,     53 

sell  or  exchange  duplicates,  etc 49 

take  books  from  the  library 51 

place  duplicates  in  certain  judicial  district  libraries 

95,  9t),     98 
required  to  make  annual  reports  to  the  legislature,  as  to  the 

expenditure  of  moneys,  etc 49,     50 

to  report  a  full  catalogue  at  the  end  of  every  five  years..     50 
provide  in   their  regulations   that   members    of    the 

legislature  may  take  books 50 

provide  that    no   books  be    taken    by    unauthorized 

persons  for  any  purpose 50 

Trustees  of  state  museum,   authorized  to  occupy  vacated  rooms 

in  state  hall  for  purposes  of  museum 54 

Union  free  schools,   academical  departments  authorized  to   be 

established  in ....23,     24 

academical  department  of,  subject  to  the  visitation  of  the 

regents 24 

(Qualifications  for  entrance  thereto.... 24 

existing  academies  may  be  adopted  as  academical  depart- 
ments of 24 

entitled  to  all  the  benefits  and  privileges  of  academies  on 

certain  conditions 26 

Union  free  school  districts,  how  dissolved 24-26 

United  States  deposit  fund,   $28,000  of  income  of,  to  be  ap- 
portioned, with  $12,000  of  literature  fund,  for  the  benefit 

of  academies 40 

to  be  applied  exclusively  to  the  payment  of  teachers'  salaries.     48 

(See  also  DistrAution,  and  Literature  Fund.) 
payment  of  distributive  share  of  literiature  fund  and,  to  be 
withheld,  until  grants  for  books,  etc.,  are  fully  accounted 

for 188 

University  convocation,  origin,  objects  and  form  of  organization 

of... 182-186 

membership  of,  how  constituted 183 

permanent  officers  of 188,  1S6 

c^uorum  of 186 

time  of  meeting  of 188,  184 


INDEX.  243 

University  convocation — Continued.  Page, 

regents  requested  to  invite  attendance  at,  from  colleges  of 

other  states 184 

executive  committee  of,  how  constituted 184 

committee  of  necrology,  how  constituted 184 

duty  of  members  of,  m  regard  to  necrology 184 

secretary  of,  to  publish  original  resolutions  of  1863,   etc., 

with  proceedings  of  each  year 184 

regents   ordinance  establishing 185,  186 

annual  commencement  of  university  to  be  held  at  time  of. . .  186 

semi-annual  session  of  regents  to  be  held  at  time  of 189 

University  of  the  state  of  New  York  instituted 1 

name  and  corporate  powers  of 1 

laws  relative  to,  and  to  the  regents  of 1-102 

act  to  institute,  cited 15 

regents  of,  constituted  trustees  of  the  state  library 48 

University  records,  reports  of  medical  examiners,  etc.,  to  be  part 

of 8,  9 

Vacancies,  in  college  boards  of  trustees  to   be   filled  by  such 

boards 30 

maybe  declared  on  account  of  absences  of  members 30 

trustees  of  academies  authorized  to  fill,  in  their  own  number.  32 

in  stock  corporations,  how  filled 21,  35 

in  boards  of  medical  examiners,  may  be  temporarily  filled  by 

the  chancellor '.  151 

Vice-chancellor,  office  of,  constituted 3 

at  the  present  time,  1881 210,  211 

Vice-chancellors,  list  of 209,  210 

Virgil's    JEneid,   as    a  requisite    for  classical    scholarship    in 

academies 41,  132 

Visitation,  power  of,  conferred  upon  board  of  regents 4,  5 

of  colleges   and  academies,    authorized   and  required  to  be 

made  oy  regents  of  university 4,  5 

of  academies,  part  of  duty  of  regents,  in  connection  with, 

to  ascertain  whether  books  of  record  are  kept 144,  145 

Year,  academic,  date  of  close  of,  to  be  fixed  by  the  trustees .  104 


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